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

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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

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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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