pancake Definition
pan·cake (pan′kāk′)
noun
- a thin, flat cake of batter fried on a griddle or in a pan; griddlecake; flapjack
- a landing in which the airplane levels off higher than for a normal landing, stalls, then drops almost vertically
- ☆ pancake makeup
intransitive verb, transitive verb -·caked′, -·cak′·ing
to make, or cause (an airplane) to make, a pancake landing
pancake Synonyms
pancake
n.
pancake Usage Examples
Converse of object
- toss: I do believe that more practice is needed in the art of tossing pancakes whilst running.
- flip: He flipped a pancake 416 times in just two minutes!
- cook: To cook a pancake you can use either a light oil or butter.
- fold: Fold a warm pancake in half, then half again, to make a cone shape.
- fill: Sprinkle with soy sauce and use to fill pancakes.
Modifies a noun
- batter: To make the pancake batter, sieve the flour and salt into a bowl and make a well in the center.
- recipe: Why don't you try the pancake recipe in my recipe section.
- ice: Only in the south were there discrete fields of pure pancake ice, normally seen over the entire central Greenland Sea.
Adjective modifier
- crispy: This is how to role your crispy duck pancake!
- savory: Create popular cocktail snacks, eat with savory pancakes or make sausage rolls with puff pastry!
- Scotch: This is going to go on all night... How about a Scotch pancake?
- delicious: When everyone has arrived and ordered a delicious pancake, 63 kisses have been exchanged.
- thin: Roll the balls out into large thin pancakes on a floured surface.
Preposition: with
syrup: Why not try the American pancakes with maple syrup?
Noun used with modifier
- buttermilk: Fresh fruit salad, Swiss-style muesli, yogurt and buttermilk pancakes are only some of the highlights of our breakfast buffet.
- blueberry: Sure, yes, the blueberry pancakes are excellent.
- banana: And with desserts like banana custard pancakes or gran's plum pudding, very few diners can resist the third course!
- potato: Another popular dish is Irish soda bread and potato pancakes.
- duck: During the course of our meal our waiter was kind enough to fetch us some special duck pancakes which were really tasty.
- mushroom: Food treads a Mediterranean path: warm quail salad with asparagus & pine kernels or wild mushroom pancake with Stilton glaze to start.
Browse dictionary entries near pancake
- ‹ panbroil
- ‹ Panay
- ‹ panatela
- ‹ Panamint Range
- ‹ Panama hat plant
- ‹ Panama City
- ‹ Panama Canal Zone
- ‹ Panama Canal
- ‹ Panama
- ‹ Panaji
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