variants also pattie
as in cake
a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried the enticing aroma of sausage patties sizzling in the skillet

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Recent Examples of patty Cook the patties in a mixture of butter and olive oil. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024 Roll the patty in the breadcrumbs, then transfer to a plate and repeat with the remaining patties. Lynn Derrick and Janelle Weaver, Saveur, 27 Nov. 2024 Even haters of the Golden Arches might find charms in He’s project, whose page edges are colored so that the book, when closed, looks like an abstraction of a Big Mac: two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun. Craig Nakano, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024 McDonald’s briefly pulled Quarter Pounders from 3,000 U.S. stores as a result of the outbreak, then narrowed that to 900 stores once testing had pinpointed onions — and not hamburger patties — as the likely source of E. coli. Jonel Aleccia, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for patty 

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“Patty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patty. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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