patty

[pat-ee] /ˈpæt i/
noun, plural patties.
1.
any item of food covered with dough, batter, etc., and fried or baked:
oyster patties.
2.
a thin, round piece of ground or minced food, as of meat or the like:
a hamburger patty.
3.
a thin, round piece, as of candy:
peppermint patties.
4.
a little pie; pasty.
Origin
1700-10; alteration of pâté, conformed to E words with the suffix -y2
Can be confused
paddy, patty.

Patty

[pat-ee] /ˈpæt i/
noun
1.
a female given name, form of Patience or Patricia.

Berg

[berg or, German berk for 1; burg for 2] /bɛrg or, German bɛrk for 1; bɜrg for 2/
noun
1.
Alban
[ahl-bahn,, ahl-bahn] /ɑlˈbɑn,, ˈɑl bɑn/ (Show IPA), 1885–1935, Austrian composer.
2.
Patricia Jane ("Patty") 1918–2006, U.S. golfer.
3.
Paul, born 1926, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1980.
Examples from the web for patty
  • The patty is charred on the outside and rosy pink from edge to edge.
British Dictionary definitions for patty

patty

/ˈpætɪ/
noun (pl) -ties
1.
a small flattened cake of minced food
2.
a small pie
Word Origin
C18: from French pâté

berg1

/bɜːɡ/
noun
1.
short for iceberg

berg2

/bɜːɡ/
noun
1.
a South African word for mountain

Berg

/bɜːɡ; German bɛrk/
noun
1.
Alban (Maria Johannes) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas Wozzeck (1921) and Lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs
2.
Paul. born 1926, US molecular biologist, the first to identify transfer RNA (1956). Nobel prize for chemistry 1980
Word Origin and History for patty
n.

"small pie," 1710, from patti-pan (1690s) "something baked in a small pan," from French pâté, from Old French paste (see paste (n.)).

berg

n.

short for iceberg, attested from 1823.

patty in Medicine

Berg (bûrg), Paul. Born 1926.

American chemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing recombinant methods of inserting genes from simple organisms into the genetic material of similar organisms.

Slang definitions & phrases for patty

patty

Related Terms

paddy