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noun
Any of various forms of small pancake made from a spoonful of batter cooked on a griddle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pancake, battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, hotcake, hot cake
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cake
Narrower terms: buckwheat cake, buttermilk pancake, blini, bliny, blintz, blintze, crape, crepe, French pancake, pfannkuchen, german pancake, potato pancake, latke, tortilla
noun
a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: drop scone, Scotch pancake
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scone
History
Etymology tree English griddle Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake English cake English griddlecake From griddle + cake.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
