"back-patty" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From back-pat + -y.",
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      "form": "more back-patty",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1969 May, book review, The Strayed Reveller, number 3, page 7:",
          "text": "We can all start off feeling back-patty and warm with our secret selves, having identified a literary allusion.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Elizabeth Foley, Beth Coates, What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History's Most Extraordinary Women, page 102:",
          "text": "But before we get all back-patty about our leaps and bounds in the progress of human endeavor, it is worth remembering that the world of science can seem extraordinarily backward when it comes to those with two X chromosomes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 April 5, Marc T. Michael, “In A State Of His Own”, in The Pulse, page 16:",
          "text": "So what's got me feeling mildly smug and back-patty today?",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Self-congratulatory or self-aggrandizing."
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          "Self-congratulatory",
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          "self-aggrandizing",
          "self-aggrandizing"
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        "(idiomatic) Self-congratulatory or self-aggrandizing."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "pat on the back"
        }
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  "word": "back-patty"
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  "etymology_text": "From back-pat + -y.",
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    {
      "form": "more back-patty",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most back-patty",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
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        {
          "ref": "1969 May, book review, The Strayed Reveller, number 3, page 7:",
          "text": "We can all start off feeling back-patty and warm with our secret selves, having identified a literary allusion.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Elizabeth Foley, Beth Coates, What Would Cleopatra Do?: Life Lessons from 50 of History's Most Extraordinary Women, page 102:",
          "text": "But before we get all back-patty about our leaps and bounds in the progress of human endeavor, it is worth remembering that the world of science can seem extraordinarily backward when it comes to those with two X chromosomes.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
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          "text": "So what's got me feeling mildly smug and back-patty today?",
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        "(idiomatic) Self-congratulatory or self-aggrandizing."
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