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patacake

patacake is the alternative form of patty cake.

Meaning of patty cake

Noun

patty cake (countable and uncountable, plural patty cakes)

  1. (Australia, countable) A cupcake or fairy cake.
    • When his task was completed we'd lie on the freshly mown lawn, watch clouds heap themselves towards heaven, listen to Carmen, and wait for Mamie's patty cakes to come out of the oven.2012, Sophie Boswell, Breaking Loose: An Australian Story

Questions about patacake

What is patacake the alternative form of?
Patacake is the alternative form of patty cake.

Words near patacake in the dictionary

  1. pat. pend.
  2. pata
  3. Pata East
  4. Pata West
  5. pataca
  6. patacake
  7. patacas
  8. patach
  9. patache
  10. pataches
  11. patacoon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patacake (page history and authors); patty cake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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