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patty cake (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 patty cakes)

1. (uncountable) A children's clapping game, played while reciting a rhyme about baking a cake.
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.

使用する際の注意点

• It is often accompanied by the nursery rhyme "Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man"/"Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man".

同意語

• pat-a-cake (英国用法)