Patty

Definitions: Patty

Patty

Noun

1. Small flat mass of chopped food.

2. Small pie or pasty.

3. Round flat candy.

"Patty" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a nobleman".

Date "patty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Patty

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	Viande hachée � laquelle on a incorporé de la chapelure ou des céréales. Utilisé surtout dans les restaurants. . . . . Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Patty

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
PATTY	English	PCR aided transcript titration assay	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Patty

Synonym: cake (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Patty

English words defined with "patty": beef patty ♦ chopped steak, chopsteak ♦ fish ball, fish cake ♦ hamburger bun, hamburger roll, hamburger steak ♦ Patties, patty shell, Pattypan, peppermint patty ♦ Salisbury steak, Sloppy Joe. (references)

Specialty definitions using "patty": Hal ♦ novelty dipper, NOVELTY MAKER I. (references)

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Modern Usage: Patty

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Patty wants me to be more emotional and express my feelings. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Isn't there a single sausage patty that isn't shaped like a heart? (Less Than Perfect; writing credit: David Blum; Tom Hertz) If I can sleep ten days and nights in a rice patty, I can certainly last in this lousy bank! (Quick Change; writing credit: Howard Franklin) Patty Simcox, the bad seed of Rydell Hi- (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey) Keep Patty away from Larry - suck the intelligence right out of her. (Parenthood; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel)
Lyrics	Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it ("Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner"; performing artist: Warren Zevon) Sir Luscious got gator belts and patty melts and Monte Carlo's ("So Fresh, So Clean"; performing artist: Outkast)
Movie/TV Titles	The Patty Duke Show (1963) Best of Patty Duke (1963) Patty (1962) Fire! Patty Learns What to Do (1951) Intimate Portrait: Patty Duke (2001)
Song Titles	MIXED UP SHOOK UP GIRL (performing artist: Patty & Emblems ) Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough (performing artist: Patty Smyth w/Don Henley)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Patty

Domain	Title
Books	Matty and Patty (reference) Patty Cat (Let's Read Together Ser.)) (reference) Peppermint Patty and Marcie (reference) Praying Patty and the Secret Languages (reference) Turning Point: The Inside Story of the Papal Birth Control Commission, and How Humane Vitae Changed the Life of Patty Crowley and the Future of the Church (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Miss Patty Cake and the Hullabaloo Zoo (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	SpongeBob SquarePants Operation Krabby Patty (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Patty

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Photo Album: Patty

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Under drought conditions, kaolin-coated trees often photosynthesize faster thatn uncoated uncoated trees. In preparation to measure photosynthesis rate of a whole tree, support scientist Patty Gundrum and Glenn anchor a whole-canopy photosynthesis chamber. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb..
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Patty

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	At one time Patty came to say she thought the kitchen chimney wanted sweeping.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Patty

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Ground beef should be cooked until a thermometer inserted into several parts of the patty, including the thickest part, reads at least 160� F. Persons who cook ground beef without using a thermometer can decrease their risk of illness by not eating ground beef patties that are still pink in the middle. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Patty

"Patty" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.08% of the time. "Patty" is used about 37 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	81.08%	30	63,341
Noun (singular)	18.92%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Patty

The following table summarizes the usage of "patty" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Patty	First name Female	43,000	373
Patty	Last name	1,000	8,896
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Patty

"Patty" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a nobleman".

The following table summarizes names related to "Patty."
Name	Gender	Language	Related Name
Patricia	Female	Ancient Roman	Patrick
Patrik	Male	Czech	Patrick
Paden	Male	English	Patrick
Pat	Male, Female	English	Patrick
Patricia	Female	English	Patrick
Patrick	Male	English	N/A
Patti	Female	English	Patrick
Pattie	Female	English	Patrick
Patton	Male	English	Patrick
Patty	Female	English	Patrick
Patrice	Male	French	Patrick
Patrick	Male	French	N/A
Patrick	Male	German	N/A
Pádraig	Male	Irish	Patrick
Paddy	Male	Irish	Patrick
Patrick	Male	Irish	N/A
Patrizia	Female	Italian	Patrick
Patrizio	Male	Italian	Patrick
Patrycja	Female	Polish	Patrick
Patryk	Male	Polish	Patrick
Patricia	Female	Portuguese	Patrick
Patricio	Male	Portuguese	Patrick
Pàdraig	Male	Scottish	Patrick
Patricia	Female	Spanish	Patrick
Patricio	Male	Spanish	Patrick
Padrig	Male	Welsh	Patrick
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Patty

Expressions using "patty": beef patty ♦ patty pan ♦ patty shell ♦ peppermint patty. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "patty": patty-pan, patty-tin.
	Ending with "patty": pitty-patty.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Patty

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
patty loveless	411
patty	223
patty griffin	179
salmon patty	166
patty plenty	132
patty duke	117
patty hearst	113
patty sandi	106
duffek patty	93
patty smyth	73
patty schnyder	73
patty cake	59
patty please	54
peppermint patty	51
patty navidad	49
patty murray	47
brard patty	45
loveless lyrics patty	45
labelle patty	43
patty larkin	42
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Patty

Language		Translations for "patty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏فطيرة (cobbler, fritter, pancake, pasty, pie, pizza). (various references)

Bulgarian		Пирожка. (various references)

Chinese		小馅饼 (Patties). (various references)

Danish		tartelet, lille postej, kødbolle (meat ball, quenelle, type of pork liver sausage), frikadelle (meat ball, type of pork liver sausage). (various references)

Dutch		frikadel (meat ball, type of pork liver sausage). (various references)

Farsi		نان شیرینی میوه داریاگوشت دار. (various references)

Finnish		rissole, risolli, frikadelli (meat ball, type of pork liver sausage). (various references)

French		rissole, fricadelle, croquette (pattie), boulette de viande, boulette. (various references)

German		Pastetchen (patties). (various references)

Greek		όπουρί, μπουρεκάκι, � ίτα Εν Σχήματι � ινακίου. (various references)

Hungarian		húspástétom (pâté). (various references)

Italian		Polpetta (meat ball, rissole), Pasticcio (botch, bungle, fix, jam, mess, pâté, pasty, pie, trouble), fricadelle (meat ball, type of pork liver sausage), "rissole". (various references)

Korean		받ty 팬 (patty-pan). (various references)

Manx		pye veg. (various references)

Pig Latin		attypay

Portuguese		rissol (millboard, oilcan), Decorar (adorn, coffer, decorate, learned, memorialize, memorize, ornament, scrimshaw), almôndega (forcemeat, hamburger, meat ball, meat chopper, quenelle, rissole, type of pork liver sausage). (various references)

Romanian		Pateu (mince pie, pasty, pate, pie), Turtiţã. (various references)

Russian		пирожок (patty 2, pie). (various references)

Spanish		hamburguesa (burger, hamburger, meat ball, type of pork liver sausage), Fritura (frying), empanadilla rellena (rissole), Empanada (fraud, pie, turnover). (various references)

Swedish		Pastej (pasty, pate, pie), Bulle (bun, roll). (various references)

Turkish		Mantı (pasty, turkish ravioli), Börek (tuck). (various references)

Ukranian		Плоска Цукерка, Пиріжечок, Лапка (Chela). (various references)

Vietnamese		chả bao bột nhỏ kẹo viên dẹt, cái chả nhỏ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Patty

Derivations
	Words beginning with "patty": pattypan, pattypans. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Patty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atty, paety, palty, partty, Patay, pathy, pati, patie, patly, patryn, patt, patta, patte, patti, pattie, Patto, pattsy, pattu, pattys, paty, patzy, pettey, petti, pettie, pettys, pety, piaty, pitty, platti, pratty, pty, pyttyll. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Patty"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "patty" (pronounced pa"tē)
4	p a" t ē	Pattie.
3	-a" t ē	Batty, catty, chatty, fatty, natty, ratty, tatty.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Patty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-p-t-t-y"
	-1 letter: paty.
	-2 letters: apt, att, pat, pay, pya, tap, tat, yap.
	-3 letters: at, ay, pa, ta, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-p-t-t-y"
	+3 letters: antetype, antitype, autotype, autotypy, patently, pattypan, potatory, pyrostat, tapestry, triptyca, typecast.
	+4 letters: antetypes, antiparty, antipathy, antitypes, asymptote, autotypes, baptistry, captivity, paternity, patiently, pattypans, pituitary, pyrostats, telepathy, triptycas, tympanist, typecasts.
	+5 letters: adaptivity, asymptotes, asymptotic, autotrophy, autotypies, baptistery, copycatted, cytopathic, hepatocyte, hypostatic, hypotactic, interparty, multiparty, nuptiality, optatively, optimality, osteopathy, pantywaist, partiality, petulantly, plasticity, potability, prototypal, putatively, somatotype, spasticity, spatiality, strathspey, topicality, tryptamine, tryptophan, tympanists, tympanites, tympanitic, typicality.
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