Pattypan

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pan used for baking patties.

    "I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers."

  2. 2
    A small variety of squash with a scalloped rim and creamy white flesh; a pattypan squash. Canada, US

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"I heard the most uncommon and unaccountable noise that can be imagined. It was, in fact, occasioned by the clattering of tin pattypans and a Dutch oven against the sides of the panniers."

Etymology

From patty + pan.

Related phrases

pattypan squash

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