pancake

Meaning of pancake

noun
  1. a thin, flat cake of batter, fried on both sides in a pan and typically rolled up with a sweet or savoury filling.
    crispy pancakes filled with cheese
    pancake batter
  2. make-up consisting of a flat solid layer of compressed powder, used especially in the theatre.
verb
  1. (with reference to an aircraft) make or cause to make a pancake landing.
    the plane landed, pancaking down on the runway
  2. flatten or become flattened.
    Hurley's car was pancaked

late Middle English: from pan1 + cake.

Information about pancake

Hyphenation of pancake

pan-cake

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • pancake is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

pancake synonyms

Meaning battercake:

battercake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hotcake

Meaning a flat round cake of pastry or bread:

galette

Meaning lengthy but vague or trivial talk or writing:

waffle

Meaning a kind of pancake cooked on a griddle:

slapjack

Meaning pancakes made from buckwheat flour and served with sour cream:

blini

Meaning (in Mexican cooking) a thin, flat pancake made from maize flour, eaten hot or cold, typically with a savoury filling:

tortilla

Meaning a Mexican deep-fried maize flour pancake topped with a seasoned mixture of beans, mincemeat, and vegetables:

tostada

Meaning (in Indian cooking) a thin pancake of unleavened wholemeal bread cooked on a griddle:

chapatti

Meaning (in southern Indian cooking) a pancake made from rice flour and ground pulses, typically served with a spiced vegetable filling:

dosa

Meaning (in Jewish cooking) a pancake, especially one made with grated potato:

latke

Meaning a thin rolled pancake filled with cheese or fruit and then fried or baked:

blintze

Translation of pancake

Words that rhyme with pancake

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