variants:
or pat-a-cake \
ˈpa-də-ˌkāk
, ˈpat-ə-
\
Definition of patty-cake
: a game in which two participants (such as mother and child) clap their hands together to the rhythm of an accompanying nursery rhyme
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The first known use of patty-cake was in 1889
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