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Etymology [edit]
Middle English 1430, pan + cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.
Pronunciation [edit]
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 (username), “Ring juggling: pancake throws”, in rec.juggling on 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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Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from pancake (noun)
Translations [edit]
thin batter cake
- Afrikaans: pannekoek
- Arabic: فطيرة (ar) (faṭīra)
- Armenian: յուղաբլիթ (hy) (yułablitʿ)
- Asturian: frixuelo m
- Belarusian: блін (be) (blin) m
- Bengali: প্যানকেক (bn)
- Bulgarian: палачинка (bg) (palačínka) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 薄烤餅 (cmn), 薄烤饼 (cmn) (bókǎobǐng)
- Crimean Tatar: şırlama
- Czech: palačinka (cs) f
- Danish: pandekage (da) c
- Dutch: pannenkoek (nl) m
- Esperanto: patkuko
- Estonian: pannkook (et)
- Faroese: pannukøka (fo) f
- Finnish: ohukainen (fi), räiskäle (fi), lätty (fi); pannukakku (fi)
- French: crêpe (fr) f, pancake (fr) m
- Galician: filloa f
- Georgian: ბლინი (ka) (blini)
- German: Pfannkuchen (de) m, Eierkuchen (de) m, Plinse (de) f, Blinse (de) f, Plins (de) m, Flins (de) m
- Greek: τηγανίτα (el) (tiganíta) f, τηγανόψωμο (el) (tiganópsomo) n
- Hindi: पैनकेक (hi) (painkek)
- Hungarian: palacsinta (hu)
- Icelandic: pönnukaka (is) f
- Irish: pancóg (ga) f
- Italian: frittella (it) f, crespolino (it) m, crespella (it) f
- Japanese: パンケーキ (ja) (pankēki), プリンゼン (ja) (burinzen) (from German), ブリヌイ (ja) (burinui) (from Russian)
- Korean: 팬케이크 (ko) (paenkeikeu)
- Latvian: pankūka (lv) f
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- Lithuanian: blynas (lt) m
- Luxembourgish: Panech (lb) m, Paangech (lb) m
- Macedonian: палачинка (mk) (palačínka) f
- Malay: lempeng (ms), penkek (ms)
- Marathi: पॅन्केक (mr) (pǎnkeka) m
- Navajo: abeʼ neesmaasí
- Norwegian: pannekake (no)
- Polish: naleśnik (pl) m
- Portuguese: panqueca (pt) f
- Romanian: clătită (ro) f
- Russian: блин (ru) (blin) m, оладья (ru) (oládʹja) f (fritter, thick pancake), налистник (ru) (nalístnik) m (stuffed pancakes, also)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: палачинка (sh) f
- Roman: palačinka (sh) f
- Slovak: palacinka (sk) f
- Slovene: palačinka (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: plinc (hsb) m, blinc (hsb) m, plins (hsb) m
- Spanish: hot cake (es) m (Mexico), pancake (es) m (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico), panqueca (es) f (Venezuela), panqueque (es) m (Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay), tortita (es) f (Spain), crep (es) f, crepe (es) f, filoa (es) f, hojuela (es) f
- Swedish: pannkaka (sv) c, plätt (sv) c
- Tamil: தோசை (ta)
- Tatar: коймак (tt) (qoymaq)
- Telugu: దోశ (te)
- Turkish: krep (tr)
- Ukrainian: млинець (uk) (mlynécʹ) m, блін (uk) (blin) m
- Vietnamese: bánh tráng (vi)
- Yiddish: בלינצע (yi) (blints) m
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pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)
- To make a pancake landing
- (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
- 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 […]
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