pancake
English
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U.S. style pancakes.
Etymology
From Middle English pancake, equivalent to pan + cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.
Compare Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”), German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpæn.keɪk/, /ˈpæŋ.keɪk/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
pancake (plural pancakes)
- A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
- (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
- (juggling) 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.
- 2004, Beinn Muir <bm260@nospam4me.cam.ac.uk>, “Ring juggling: pancake throws”, in rec.juggling, Usenet:
- 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.
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- Anything very thin and flat.
- 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists
- Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]
- 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists
Derived terms
terms derived from pancake (noun)
Translations
thin batter cake
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Verb
pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)
- (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
- (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
- (transitive) To flatten violently.
- 2011, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters
- Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters […]
- 2011, Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters
See also
Middle English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpankaːk(ə)/
References
- “panne-cāke (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
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