pat-a-cake

pat-a-cake
/pat"euh kayk'/, n.
a children's game in which a child claps hands alone and with another child while chanting a nursery rhyme.
Also, patty-cake.
[1870-75; after the opening words of a rhyme that accompanies such play]

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