Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A child's game in which two participants gently strike the palms of their hands together in rhythmic beat, often accompanied by a nursery rhyme.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A children's game played by patting the hands together to a nursery rime.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
patty cake .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Among the band's most deceptively complex fare, "Lotus Flower" weaves a spartan electronic bass line through a percussive game of patty-cake, while a billowing vocabulary of electronic sounds float into the picture, almost intravenously.
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I know several folks want to play patty-cake with b-cup.
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It's obvious that some Republican politicians have no problem with playing patty-cake with the violent kooks in their audience.
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The profane clown plays verbal patty-cake with the racist latina nominee.
Sotomayor stumped 2009
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It's obvious that some Republican politicians have no problem with playing patty-cake with the violent kooks in their audience.
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In fact, the brief fifteen year history of the Third Reich and Hitler's persecution of the Jews was like playing patty-cake compared to what happened in the southern colonies and later states between 1700 and 1965 (the Civil Rights Act; may God bless Lyndon Johnson's soul).
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Sure, there are some mercenaries who will overpay for bleacher seats, hoping to catch an eBay prize, but most Yankee fans are far more consumed with Andy Pettitte's groin, Derek Jeter's slump, and A.J. Burnett's post - meltdown dugout patty-cake routine to have emotion left for A-Rod.
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A few weeks ago we showed you a cute/ridiculous video of two cats playing patty-cake or at least they appeared to be that was just begging for a cat-to-English translation.
Cats Playing Patty-Cake Get Much Needed Voice-Over (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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He stopped playing patty-cake with Ted Kennedy and started listening to all the conservatives who oppose illegal immigration.
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In 2008 Bjorkman was seen backstage of the Charlie Rose show, playing patty-cake with a pink tu-tu clad Norman Mailer, one year after Mailer's death, thereby dispelling the icon's macho image forever.
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