Dogpatch

American  

[dawg-pach, dog-] / ˈdɔgˌpætʃ, ˈdɒg- /

Or dogpatch

noun

1. a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education.

   He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.

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adjective

1. noting or pertaining to such a community, or a person who lives there.

   a Dogpatch hoedown.

Etymology

Origin of Dogpatch

From the name of a fictional hamlet in “Li'l Abner,” a comic strip by Al Capp

Example Sentences

Pelosi told the crowd at a Sunday evening event in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2024

Patch O'Furr, proprietor of the furry news site Dogpatch Press, tells The Daily Beast that many of the same people spreading bogus furry rumors are the same people agitating to ban books they don't like.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2022

Instead of quaint Sesame Street-style neighborliness, I was now living in Dogpatch, a former dockyard where massive, hulking warehouses and factories had rapidly converted into glossy condos.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2021

Ms. Banchero was cooking at Piccino, a hip restaurant in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco that is teeming with start-ups.

From New York Times • May 30, 2020

Pelsor, 69, the inventor of a spill-proof dog bowl, came to Arkansas in 2014 to convert the abandoned Dogpatch theme park into an “ecotourism village.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2019