PAT-A-CAKE


Meaning of PAT-A-CAKE in English

/pat"euh kayk'/ , n.

a children's game in which a child claps hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme.

Also, patty-cake .

[ 1870-75; after the opening words of a rhyme that accompanies such play ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .