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A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, dated
Examples
- In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.
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thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: johnnycake, johnny cake, journey cake
From hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).
