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🧁 A small cake 🥒 A round squash 🥧 A baking pan
pattypan

pattypan

9.0
A small tart baked in a shallow round baking tin and served as a single pastry
  • noun
  • /ˈpætiˌpæn/
  • US
translation icon : tarta
  • She placed a freshly baked pattypan on each guest's plate for dessert.

Examples

  • The bakery is famous for its lemon curd pattypans served with afternoon tea.

  • He enjoyed a warm pattypan filled with jam at the café.

  • Look at that pattypan!

  • I love this pattypan.

  • The bakery is famous for its lemon curd pattypans served with afternoon tea.

  • She placed a freshly baked pattypan on each guest's plate for dessert.

  • He enjoyed a warm pattypan filled with jam at the café.

Synonyms

tart
vspattypan
93 1.6

A small open pastry filled with fruit or custard

is baked in a shallow round tin as an individual cake rather than open

Compounds

pattypan squash
7.7

A small round summer vegetable with a flat shape and wavy edges often pale green, white, or yellow

How Big

cake
108 1.0
tart
93 1.6
pattypan
  • US
9.0
tartlet
2 4.8

Surface Forms

pattypan singular
pattypans plural

Morphology

pattypan = patty + pan (transparent) = patty + pan

Named as a compound of 'patty' + 'pan' (a small pan or a small cake made in such a pan), so the relation to the components is direct and guessable.

Etymology

Pattypan comes from the simple parts patty ('small cake') and pan ('cooking pan'), so imagine a tiny cake baked in its own little pan. That's why a pattypan is a small tart or individual pastry.