patty

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
patty/ˈpati/

▶noun (pl. patties)

• 1 a small flat cake of minced food, especially meat.

• 2 a small pie or pasty.

• 3 N. Amer. a thin circular chocolate-covered peppermint sweet.

– origin C17: alt. of Fr. pâté, by assoc. with pasty1.