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In some senses, pattycake is marked as colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.
pattycake
noun 2
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3VERB + PATTYCAKE
don't, play
PATTYCAKE + NOUN
he's, people
PREP.
with
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VERB + PATTYCAKE
don't, play
PATTYCAKE + NOUN
he's, people
PREP.
with
noun
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".
A childish or time-wasting activity.
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.”
This Cherokee County Sheriff goes about two-fifty and he don't play pattycake. He's gonna wanna know where you were yesterday.
Wiktionary“Stalin's boys don't play pattycake with people like Mr. Kravchenko.”
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In some senses, pattycake is marked as colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.