| 释义 |
ˈpatty-cake
[f. patty + cake.]
1. A patty.
1865Holland Plain T. viii. 293, I will make patty-cakes and pastry.
2. U.S. var. of pat-a-cake. Also fig.
1889C. F. Woolson in Harper's Mag. June 119 He played patty-cake steadily with Porley, looking at the others out of the corner of his eye. 1950O. Nash Family Reunion (1951) 11 All of Granny's muscles ache From half an hour of patty-cake. 1972Bankers' Mag. (Boston, Mass.) Winter 93/2 The crushing price increases that are putting the older fixed incomers on welfare don't emanate from the big firms that are assumed to be playing patty cake with the unions. 1976Word 1971 XXVII. 34 Laura loves to play patty-cake. She laughs and flaps her hands together. She will respond to the words alone, but she does not respond to the motions alone. 1976M. Machlin Pipeline xxxviii. 412 Ever since we started this damn pipeline, Golconda has been playing patty-cake with Friends of the Earth and all the rest. |