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Loves the country so much it needs fixing immediately, by them, personally.
means Someone devoted to their country and ready to defend or serve it.
from Traces back through French patriote to Late Latin patriota ('fellow countryman'), rooted in Greek pater — father. A patriot, etymologically, is someone bound to the fatherland. The word actually had a shady phase in English: in the 1700s it briefly became a sarcastic term for a self-styled champion of liberty who was really just making noise — proof that the 'loud about loving the country' sense isn't new, it's a relapse.
- etymology
- from Greek patris, meaning fatherland
- irony
- often most vocal when criticizing the government
- flexibility
- definition changes depending on who is currently in power