pancake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.keɪk/
ipa: /ˈpæŋ.keɪk/
Forms: form: pancakes
form: pan cake
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake.
Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further
Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”).
The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.
Senses: glosses: A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.
examples: text: Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other.
ref: 2001, Alice A. Deck, ““Now Then—Who Said Biscuits?” The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising, 1905–1953”, in Sherrie A. Inness, editor, Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:
In the US (and e.g. Scotland), a leavened, thicker, fluffier cake.
examples: text: And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park.
ref: 1984 April 14, Freddie Greenfield, “Spoiling the View”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
examples: text: have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible.
ref: 2004, Beinn Muir <bm260@nospam4me.cam.ac.uk>, “Ring juggling: pancake throws”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: 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.
examples: text: pancake lens
text: Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]
ref: 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists:
glosses: Anything very thin and flat.
examples: text: &hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels.
ref: 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages, page 1200:
glosses: Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A box on which an actor stands to make them appear taller.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: A defensive play in which the ball bounces off the top of a hand that has been pressed flat against the floor.
Synonyms: sense: thin fried batter cake
word: crêpe
sense: thin fried batter cake
word: crepe
sense: thin fried batter cake
word: flapjack
sense: thin fried batter cake
word: griddle cake
sense: thin fried batter cake
word: hotcake
sense: thin fried batter cake
word: pikelet
Derived terms: American pancake
flapcake
flat as a pancake
French pancake
German pancake
ice pancake
pancake bond
Pancake Day
pancake engine
pancake ice
pancake landing
pancake lens
pancakelike
pancake-maker
pancake number
pancake slug
pancake sorting
pancake syrup
pancake theorem
pancake tortoise
pancake turner
pancakey
panstick
potato pancake
scallion pancake
Scotch pancake
sea pancake