- pat-a-cake
- nounA clapping game that keeps time to a nursery rhyme.
Mother played pat-a-cake with the baby.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
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pat|ty-cake — «PAT ee KAYK», noun. = pat a cake. (Cf. ↑pat a cake) … Useful english dictionary
pat·ty-cake — (US)) /ˈpætiˌkeık/ (also pat a cake /ˈpætəˌkeık/ noun [noncount] : a children s game in which two people lightly hit their hands together while singing a short poem (called a nursery rhyme) Let s do/play patty cake … Useful english dictionary
pat-a-cake — {n.} A clapping game that keeps time to a nursery rhyme. * /Mother played pat a cake with the baby./ … Dictionary of American idioms
pat-a-cake — {n.} A clapping game that keeps time to a nursery rhyme. * /Mother played pat a cake with the baby./ … Dictionary of American idioms
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man — is a traditional English nursery rhyme.:Pat a cake, pat a cake, baker s man.:Bake me a cake as fast as you can.:Pat it and roll it and mark it with B :And put it in the oven for Baby and me.It is often accompanied by hand clapping between two… … Wikipedia
pat-a-cake — /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] * * * … Universalium
pat-a-cake — variant of patty cake … New Collegiate Dictionary
pat-a-cake — noun a children s game with gentle patting in time to the words of a rhyme … English new terms dictionary
pat-a-cake — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: so called from the opening words of the rhyme : a nursery play in which a child claps his hands to the words of a rhyme in imitation of another s actions … Useful english dictionary
pat — {{11}}pat (adv.) apt, suitably, 1570s, perhaps a special use of PAT (Cf. pat) (n.) in sense of a hitting the mark. The adjective is 1630s, from the adverb. {{12}}pat (n.) c.1400, a blow, stroke, perhaps originally imitative of the sound of… … Etymology dictionary
