Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
PANCAKE
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
Etymology
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• (thin fried batter cake): crêpe/crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet
Verb
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.
Anagrams
• cakepan
Proper noun
Pancake
A surname.
Anagrams
• 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
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THOUGHTLESS
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
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