Dogpatch
/ˈdɒɡpatʃ/US
noun
(The type of) an unsophisticated, impoverished rural community.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The English Journal. From Dogpatch, the name of an impoverished rural community in the comic strip Li'l Abner by ‘Al Capp’ (Alfred Gerald Caplin, 1909–79); compare quot. 1946.
- videosurgery
- videotape
- videotape recorder
- videotelephony
- videotex
- videotext
- videshi
- vidicon
- vidiot
- vie
- vie de Bohème
- vielle
- Vienna
- Vienna Circle
- Vienna, Congress of
- Vienna sausage
- Vienna Secession
- Viennese
- Viennese Actionism
- Viennese Actionist
- Viennese coffee
- Viennese waltz
- Vientiane
- Vierwaldstättersee
- Vietcong