hotcake
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
hotcake (plural hotcakes)
- (Canada, US) A pancake.
- For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
- Something that sells quickly in large volumes.
- 1977 April 9, David Holland, “People, Places, and Flings”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
- Monsieur Kopay's account of coming-out in the locker room has returned to the printers for a third run. That little hotcake is coming out of Arbor house at a selling rate of 650 copies per day.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Alutiiq: haatkiik
- → Cantonese: 克戟 (hak1 kik1)
- → Cebuano: hatkeyk
- → Japanese: ホットケーキ (hottokēki)
- → Spanish: hotcake
Translations[edit]
pancake — see pancake
Further reading[edit]
- “hot cake”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Spanish[edit]
Noun[edit]
hotcake m (plural hotcakes)
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