What's the difference between patsy and patty?

Patsy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Patsy Byrne, actor, born 13 July 1933; died 17 June 2014
  • (2) Then, in 1963, driving to attend a memorial service for Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Cowboy Copas, country stars who had died in a plane crash, Anglin was killed in a car accident.
  • (3) They then swung across to Louisiana, where they gunned down convenience-store cashier Patsy Byers, paralysing her from the neck down.
  • (4) The visiting captain left his best to the closing moments of the half when a juggling act left Leon Osman and Sylvain Distin the patsies in a move that finished with Lallana's volley missing by inches.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bowie with, Patsy Kensit and Eddie O’Connell in Absolute Beginners in 1986.
  • (6) The use of a potential proxy to drive a bomb to a security force base will bring back memories in Derry of the 1990 murder of Catholic contractor Patsy Gillespie.
  • (7) Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live earlier today, Yentob added: "If you're negotiating with someone else as well you feel a bit of a patsy if you're sitting down so we stopped and said, 'Do you want to come?'
  • (8) But I remembered something: in the late 80s, Patsy and I were at a very, very glamorous evening in Hollywood to celebrate a very, very important Hollywood star, and you were the emcee for the evening.
  • (9) Tim Jonze When You Need a Laugh – Patsy Cline Songs I've heard at dawn return to make me cry in daylight, however saccharine and bloated ( Kelly Clarkson's Because of You , please be kind).
  • (10) Patsy Baker, a partner from Bell Pottinger is also listed on the documents as sitting on another table.
  • (11) Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool overpowered Manchester City with intensity | Michael Cox Read more This victory over City was a triumph for Klopp’s gegenpressing ethos – the quick switch from attack to a high press – as City were cast as hapless patsies who made countless errors and gave up possession cheaply.
  • (12) Perhaps his violent obsession with blondes had its roots in an incident at the age of 12, when his blonde girlfriend Patsy Morris, 14, was found strangled on Hounslow Heath.
  • (13) Meanwhile Alderman, when he succeeded Wardle at the SFO, insisted he was no patsy.
  • (14) Patsy Bivins, 68, a retired waitress from Sturgiss, Kentucky, is one of hundreds or even thousands who have been warned to look out for the tell-tale symptoms of a splitting headache, fever, stiff neck, difficulty walking or worsening back pain.
  • (15) While there are many holes in Pyne’s denial and the uncomfortably eroding rebuttal from Abbott, there were just as many questions left unanswered by the relatively patsy interview on 60 Minutes.
  • (16) LP: Last autumn, I worked with Unicef and Patsy and I were in Hanoi for the first time.
  • (17) His refusal to sign a petition calling for the release of the imprisoned Nobel peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo led to him being dismissed by Salman Rushdie as a "patsy of the regime" , while his fellow Nobel laureate Herta Müller called his win " a slap in the face for all those working for democracy and human rights ".
  • (18) The new attorney general, appointed in controversial circumstances last December, is seen by the opposition as a Brotherhood patsy.
  • (19) Clegg had been prepared for attacks by Labour that he has turned into a Tory patsy, but he is insistent he has ensured the budget has not followed the path of most previous fiscal consolidations by hitting the poor hardest.
  • (20) There had been female singers in country music before – the indefatigably yodelling Patsy Montana; Molly O'Day, all gingham and tears; the regal Sara Carter – but they always required the presence of male protectors: singing husbands or an all-male backing band.

Patty


Definition:

  • (n.) A little pie.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At temperatures greater than 150 degrees C the mutagenic activity of the cooked meat increased to reach a maximum at 300 degrees C. In another series of experiments, lamb patties were cooked at 250 degrees C for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 min.
  • (2) Lomax is survived by Patti and by Charmaine, his daughter from his first marriage.
  • (3) Here's Reid: Sen. Murray [Patty Murray, D-Washington, budget committee chairwoman] has asked to go to conference 18 times.
  • (4) In addition, nonheme iron absorption from a test meal of the respective beef pattie consumed for the 180 days was estimated by the extrinsic tag procedure.
  • (5) And while some of the 12-member panel still shudder at the memory , four of them – Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, James Clyburn and Rob Portman – got the band back together, with 25 other lawmakers from both parties and both houses.
  • (6) Previous research lead to the development of pressed and salted patties based on lean fish species, the low cost and easy preservation of which would contribute to a higher fish consumption among the low socio-economic strata of the Mexican population.
  • (7) Feckless in all other respects, Richard feels protective towards Walter, which is why he won't sleep with Patty.
  • (8) Alan M Dershowitz, who has represented heiress Patty Hearst and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is asking to represent the 81-year-old director of Chinatown and The Pianist in the Los Angeles county superior court.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Senator Patty Murray, right: ‘This Republican approach of access without affordability is like offering somebody a single shoe.
  • (10) Top the patties with some relish and serve with more dressed rocket leaves and tomatoes.
  • (11) Patti, who is played in the film by Nicole Kidman, was keen to flag up the film's relevance for today's troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • (12) In May, more than 120 prominent international writers and artists, including Philip Roth, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patti Smith, Woody Allen and Stephen Sondheim, called on Sisi to release Naji in a letter sent by free speech organisation PEN America.
  • (13) But the protagonists – Patty especially – are constantly making new discoveries about themselves: redemptive insights, lessons in the contradictoriness of the human heart.
  • (14) Joey's slap in the face to his parents is certainly transgressive, "a stunning act of sedition and a dagger to Patty's heart".
  • (15) The Washington senator Patty Murray is attempting to get support for a new federal proposal that would increase the minimum wage to $8 in 2016 and then increase it by another dollar each year until it reaches $12 in 2020.
  • (16) Patties were prepared from ground beef--some with and some without calcium, vitamin A, or ascorbic acid, either singly or in various combinations.
  • (17) The silicone rubber sheet described here is smoother, thinner, and lighter than a cotton pattie.
  • (18) Loudspeakers pumped out Patti Smith’s People Have the Power to 8,000 people packed into the basketball stadium.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Patti Davis, daughter of Nancy Reagan, speaks at her mother’s funeral.
  • (20) Producers were said to be targeting mainly arthouse film-makers, with Capote's Bennett Miller and Monster's Patty Jenkins also considered, according to the Hollywood Reporter.