PANCAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pancake mean? 

• PANCAKE (noun)
  The noun PANCAKE has 1 sense:

1. a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

  Familiarity information: PANCAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANCAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

battercake; flannel-cake; flannel cake; flapcake; flapjack; griddlecake; hot cake; hotcake; pancake

Hypernyms ("pancake" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pancake"):

buckwheat cake (a pancake made with buckwheat flour)

buttermilk pancake (a pancake made with buttermilk)

blini; bliny (Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream)

blintz; blintze ((Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked)

crape; crepe; French pancake (small very thin pancake)

german pancake; pfannkuchen (puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce)

latke; potato pancake (made of grated potato and egg with a little flour)

tortilla (thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour)

 Context examples 

I'm so sorry, but the tongs were too hot, and so I've made a mess, groaned poor Jo, regarding the little black pancakes with tears of regret.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then good food was set before them, milk and pancakes, with sugar, apples, and nuts.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The Milky Way looks nothing like the flat space pancake it is usually depicted as.

(Scientists Say Milky Way Is Warped & Twisted Not Flat, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

And, what is more, said Hordle John, suddenly appearing out of the buttery with the huge board upon which the pastry was rolled, if either raise sword I shall flatten him like a Shrovetide pancake.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)