Patty vs Pawty - What's the difference?
patty | pawty |
A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
* 1904 , Patty at Home , BiblioBazaar,LLC, 2007, ISBN 1434621162, page 36:
* {{quote-book
, year = 1939
, first = James
, last = Joyce
, authorlink = James Joyce
, title = (Finnegans Wake)
, section = book I, ch. 7
, page = 182
, passage = ...cutting a great dash in a brandnew two guinea dress suit and a burled hogsford hired for a Fursday evenin merry pawty ...
}}
As nouns the difference between patty and pawty
is that patty is a flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape while pawty is .patty
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always call me Patricia there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called Patricia? Patty is such a baby name."
- "Patty is good enough for me," said Mr. Fairfield.