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# patty

«patty» in Mova's school dictionary: **A flat round cake of minced meat or other food…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a patty, patties)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flat round cake of minced meat or other food, especially the meat in a burger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#m1)

2) A small pie or pastry, e.g. a Jamaican patty with a spicy filling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#m2)

3) (US) A small flat sweet, as in a peppermint patty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

An everyday food word: burger patties (beef, chicken, veggie, bean). In the UK and Canada, Jamaican patties are a popular snack. Kitchen safety: cook meat patties right through so they are not pink in the middle.

### examples

- Dad grilled the burger patties on the barbecue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#x1)
- My veggie patty is made of beans and sweetcorn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#x2)
- We bought Jamaican patties for lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#x3)
- Shape the mince into four flat patties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#x4)
- Make sure the patty is cooked through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#x5)
- A peppermint patty is a mint sweet covered in chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#x6)
- In places the air was darkened by showers of lobster-patties, white puddings, sausages, tarts, and all sorts of sweetmeats, or with pieces of gold and silver, diamonds and pearls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/#x7)

### note

Countable; plural patties (y → ies). Patty is also a girl's name (short for Patricia) — a name. Do not confuse with «paddy» (a rice field) or «pâté» (a meat spread).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «patty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.