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Meaning of pattycake | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A children's game in which two people alternately clap their own and each other's hands, often to the accompaniment of the nursery rhyme "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man".
    uncountable
  2. A childish or time-wasting activity.
    colloquial, uncountable

Equivalents

Español arepitas
Nederlands handjeklap handjeplak
Português adoleta
Русский ла́душки

Examples

“This Cherokee County Sheriff goes about two-fifty and he don't play pattycake. He's gonna wanna know where you were yesterday.”
““Stalin's boys don't play pattycake with people like Mr. Kravchenko.””

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

pattypan pattypan squash patu Patuakhali District Patucannay patulin

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