patty-cakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

patty cake (countable and uncountable, plural patty cakes)

1. (uncountable) Alternative spelling of pattycake.
2. (countable, Australia) A cupcake or fairy cake.
   • 2012, Sophie Boswell, Breaking Loose: An Australian Story:

     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.

名詞

pattycake (uncountable)

1. (children's games) 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".
2. (colloquial) A childish or time-wasting activity.
   • 2001, Dennis J. Reardon, Plays, page 31:

     This Cherokee County Sheriff goes about two-fifty and he don't play pattycake. He's gonna wanna know where you were yesterday.

   • 2007, Gary Kern, The Kravchenko Case: One Man's War on Stalin, page 67:

     “Stalin's boys don't play pattycake with people like Mr. Kravchenko.”

別の表記

• (game): pat-a-cake (UK), patacake