PATTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patty mean? 

• PATTY (noun)
  The noun PATTY has 3 senses:

1. small flat mass of chopped food

2. small pie or pasty

3. round flat candy

  Familiarity information: PATTY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small flat mass of chopped food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cake; patty

Hypernyms ("patty" is a kind of...):

dish (a particular item of prepared food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "patty"):

fish ball; fish cake (a fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small pie or pasty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("patty" is a kind of...):

pie (dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Round flat candy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("patty" is a kind of...):

candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "patty"):

peppermint patty (a patty flavored with peppermint)

 Context examples 

I don't want to have you, so run away and help Daisy make patty cakes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When on the red meat diet, the participants consumed roughly the equivalent of about 8 ounces of steak daily, or two quarter-pound beef patties.

(Study links frequent red meat consumption to high levels of chemical associated with heart disease, National Institutes of Health)

Patty makes an excellent apple-dumpling.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)