pancake, battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake, hot cake
(noun) a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pancake (plural pancakes)
A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
(theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
(juggling) 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.
Anything very thin and flat.
(film, slang) A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
• (thin fried batter cake): crêpe/crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet
pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)
(intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
(construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
(transitive) To flatten violently.
• cakepan
Pancake
A surname.
• cakepan
Source: Wiktionary
Pan"cake`, n.
Definition: A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
