[Ads-l] Antedating of "Pitty Pat" (Card Game)

[Shapiro, Fred]

pitty pat (OED, s.v. pit-a-pat, n. 2, 1947)

1932 Marshall (Tex.) Morning News 18 Oct. 1 / 4 (Newspapers.com)

A friendly game of cards between two negroes had ended yesterday in death to Jack Tilman ... He and Tilman were playing a game called "Pitty Pat" with five cards.

Fred Shapiro

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