Definitions for pat-a-cake

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Spelling: [pat-uh-keyk]

IPA: /ˈpæt əˌkeɪk/

Pat-A-Cake is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in pat-a-cake (--aaacekpt).

Definitions for pat-a-cake

noun

1. a children's game in which a child claps hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme.

Origin of pat-a-cake

First recorded in 1870-75; after the opening words of a rhyme that accompanies such play

Examples for pat-a-cake

Even baby has its "pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake," and is lulled to sleep with visions of a coach and six little ponies.

Barby stooped to take the little terrier's head between her hands and pat-a-cake it back and forth with an affectionate caress.