单词 | patty-cake |
释义 | patty-caken. 1. Chiefly U.S. A small pie or pastry; a patty (patty n. 1).In quot. 1788 used in the rhyme which usually accompanies the game of pat-a-cake: see sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pasty > [noun] pasty1296 pain puffa1425 pastetha1425 petty pernya1425 petit pâté?c1425 patty1660 overflap1692 pattypan1694 patty-cake1788 puff pastry1788 turn-over1798 pielet1881 1788 ‘Nurse Lovechild’ Tommy Thumb's Song Bk. 23 Patty Cake, Patty Cake, Baker's Man; That I will Master, As fast as I can. Pricket, and Pricket, and mark it with a T; And there will be enough For Tommy and thee. 1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks viii. 293 I will make patty-cakes and pastry. 1983 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 25 Feb. 20 The sweet-potato patty-cake was just crispy around the edges. 2002 Illawarra Mercury (Australia) (Nexis) 10 Jan. 2 A quick two-hour lunch at the pub and a patty cake with a candle constituted his birthday celebrations. 2. U.S. = pat-a-cake n. Also figurative. Cf. earlier patty-cake v. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > games played with fingers handy-dandy1575 nievie-nievie-nick-nackc1585 wiggle-waggle1825 pat-a-cake1838 patty-cake1889 janken1894 1889 Harper's Mag. June 119 He played patty-cake steadily with Porley, looking at the others out of the corner of his eye. 1950 O. Nash Family Reunion (1951) 11 All of Granny's muscles ache From half an hour of patty-cake. 1972 Bankers' Mag. (Boston, Mass.) Winter 93/2 The crushing price increases..don't emanate from the big firms that are assumed to be playing patty cake with the unions. 2002 Boston Herald (Nexis) 31 Dec. 22 [The chairman] was ousted when it became clear he would do no more than play pattycake with former corporate clients. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). patty-cakev. rare. intransitive. To play patty-cake. ΚΠ 1865 W. D. Howells Let. 28 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1979) I. 208 [The cat] takes being made to patty-cake with her fore-paws for the baby's amazement. 1995 C. D. Short Shining Shining Path iii. 51 They were mesmerized by two small girls patty-caking near the swing set. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1788v.1865 |
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