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to patty

to patty

1 4.6
To shape or press a mixture into small flat cakes for cooking
  • verb
  • /ˈpæti/
translation icon : 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

3 1.6

A flat round piece of cooked ground beef used in burgers

1 3.4

A small round chocolate with a soft mint filling

back-patty
  • Slang
9.9

A small private action of praising yourself for something you did

6.1

A small hollow pastry case that holds savory or sweet fillings

9.8

A shallow baking dish for making small pies

How Flat

to squash
55 2.0
to flatten
23 2.6
to patty
1 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.