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to patty

to patty

4.6
To shape or press a mixture into small flat cakes for cooking
  • verb
  • /ˈpæti/
: formar tortitas
  • He learned how to patty the dough properly so that it would cook evenly on both sides.

Examples

  • I met her mother just after i was married To patty my wife, and i was a happely married man

  • Might I not patty and anachronistically expire, like a literary broken heart?

    Fiction book (2000)
  • You got your, you know, your standard bacon, sausage, beef patties, maybe a little kebab.

  • Cultivated meat begins in a sterile lab, and it grows in giant stainless steel vats before being shaped into patties and cutlets.

  • After mixing the ingredients, she began to patty the ground beef into round shapes for the burgers.

  • To make the crab cakes, you need to patty the mixture firmly before frying.

Compounds

4 1.6

A flat round piece of cooked ground beef used in burgers

2 3.4

A small round chocolate with a soft mint filling

1 9.8

A shallow baking dish for making small pies

1 6.1

A small hollow pastry case that holds savory or sweet fillings

back-patty
  • Slang
9.9

A small private action of praising yourself for something you did

How Flat

to squash
74 2.0
to flatten
86 2.6
to patty
4.6

Surface Forms

patty infinitive
pattyed past
pattyed past participle
pattying present participle
patties third person singular

Etymology

Patty also became a verb: to pattie means to press a mixture into a small, flat cake, because the action simply makes a patty.