pancake
/ˈpæn.keɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
Australian usage; Canadian usage; American usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other."
- "And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park."
- "have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible."
- "pancake lens"
- "Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]"
- "&hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels."
Etymology
Etymology tree substratebor.? Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πᾰτᾰ́νη (pătắnē)bor. Latin patina? Latin pannabor.? Proto-Germanic *pannǭ Proto-West Germanic *pannā Old English panne Middle English panne Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake Middle English panne cake English pancake Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”). The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.
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Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.
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Synonyms
crêpe
crepe
flapjack
griddlecake
griddle cake
hotcake
hot cake
batter cake
battercake
batty cake
flitter
flitter cake