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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.”

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• (game): pat-a-cake (UK), patacake

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[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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