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/ˈpætikeɪk/ · noun
(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"..
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.”
Use pattycake when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pattycake means (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"..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This Cherokee County Sheriff goes about two-fifty and he don't play pattycake. He's gonna wanna know where you were yesterday.
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