PATTY-CAKE


Meaning of PATTY-CAKE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpa-tē-ˌkāk ]

noun

or pat-a-cake ˈpa-də-ˌkāk, ˈpat-ə-

Etymology: from the opening words of the rhyme

Date: 1889

: a game in which two participants (as mother and child) clap their hands together to the rhythm of an accompanying nursery rhyme

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.