pancake
English
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
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.
- 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
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Derived terms
terms derived from pancake (noun)
Translations
thin batter cake
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Verb
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- (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 […]
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
pancake m (plural pancakes)
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pancake
- pancake (kind of fried cake)
Descendants
References
- “panne-cāke (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
Portuguese
Noun
pancake f (plural s)
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