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See also: patty-cake and patty cake

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    • 1.1 Noun
      • 1.1.1 Alternative forms
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Noun

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pattycake (uncountable)

  1. (children's games) A children's game in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands, often to the accompaniment of the nursery rhyme "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man".
  2. (colloquial) A childish or time-wasting activity.
    • 2001, Dennis J. Reardon, Plays, page 31:This Cherokee County Sheriff goes about two-fifty and he don't play pattycake. He's gonna wanna know where you were yesterday.
    • 2007, Gary Kern, The Kravchenko Case: One Man's War on Stalin, page 67:“Stalin's boys don't play pattycake with people like Mr. Kravchenko.”

Alternative forms

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  • (game): pat-a-cake (UK), patacake

Translations

edit children's game in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands
  • Dutch: handjeklap (nl) n, handjeplak (nl) n
  • Portuguese: adoleta (pt) f
  • Russian: ла́душки (ru) f pl (láduški)
  • Spanish: arepitas
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