griddle

English

Pancakes on a griddle

An electric griddle

Etymology

From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. Doublet of grill (“grid of wire”), from the same Old French and Latin sources, doublet of grate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪdəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪdəl

Noun

griddle (plural griddles)

1. A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.
   • 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “chapter 5”, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

     Such a clatter as the little spoon made, and such a beating as the batter got, it quite foamed, I assure you; and when Daisy poured some on to the griddle, it rose like magic into a puffy flapjack that made Demi's mouth water.

   • 1894, Lance Rawson, “Australian enquiry book of household and general information”, in Cookery:

     Some people when making scones do not trouble to light the oven but use the frying pan: of course if you have a griddle it is better than oven or pan, but very few people possess this useful utensil.

Derived terms

• antigriddle
• griddle cake
• griddlecake
• griddler
• like a hen on a hot griddle
• McGriddle

Related terms

• grid
• gridiron

Translations

flat plate for cooking

• Bulgarian: готварска плоча f (gotvarska ploča)
• Czech: plotna f, plotýnka f, plech na pečení, lívanečník (cs) m
• Dutch: bakplaat (nl)
• German: Backblech (de) n, Kuchenblech n
• Haitian Creole: platin
• Irish: grideall f
• Japanese: 鉄板 (ja) (teppan)
• Latvian: cepešpanna f
• Māori: pāraharaha
• Middle English: gridil
• Navajo: bikááʼatʼeesí, tsétʼees
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: takke (no) m

  Nynorsk: takka f

• Persian: بریجن (fa) (berijan)
• Portuguese: chapa (pt) f
• Russian: про́тивень (ru) m (prótivenʹ)
• Spanish: comal (es) m, budare m, plancha culinaria f

Verb

griddle (third-person singular simple present griddles, present participle griddling, simple past and past participle griddled)

1. (transitive) To cook on a griddle.

Anagrams

• girdled, gridled