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.
[Alteration of pat-a-cake, the first words of the nursery rhyme accompanying the game.]
Did you mean: patty-cake, Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man
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pat·ty-cake (păt'ē-kāk') ![]() |
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.
[Alteration of pat-a-cake, the first words of the nursery rhyme accompanying the game.]
Did you mean: patty-cake, Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man
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