patty-cake
pat·ty–cake
noun \ˈpa-tē-ˌkāk\Definition of PATTY-CAKE
: a game in which two participants (as mother and child) clap their hands together to the rhythm of an accompanying nursery rhyme
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pat·ty–cake or pat–a–cake \ˈpa-də-ˌkāk, ˈpat-ə-\
Origin of PATTY-CAKE
from the opening words of the rhyme
First Known Use: 1889
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