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pattipan

pattipan is the alternative form of pattypan.

Meaning of pattypan

Noun

pattypan (plural pattypans)

  1. A pan used for baking patties.
    • I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers.1780, William Cowper, letter, 5 June
  2. (Canada, US) A small variety of squash with a scalloped rim and creamy white flesh; a pattypan squash.

Forms of pattipan

pluralpattipans

Questions about pattipan

What is pattipan the alternative form of?
Pattipan is the alternative form of pattypan.

Words near pattipan in the dictionary

  1. pattinsonization
  2. pattinsonize
  3. pattinsonized
  4. pattinsonizes
  5. pattinsonizing
  6. pattipan
  7. pattipans
  8. Pattiqui
  9. pattis
  10. Pattishall
  11. Pattison

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pattipan (page history and authors); pattypan (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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