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flapjack|ˈflæpdʒæk|
[f. flap v. (sense 4 a) + jack.]
1. a. A flat cake, a pan-cake. b. An apple turnover or flat tart, an ‘apple-jack’.
c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. v. (1881) 114 My Mother..could have taught thee how to a made butters and flap⁓jacks. 1620Taylor (Water-P.) Jack-a-Lent B ij, A Flap⁓iack, which in our translation is call'd a Pancake. 1641Brome Joviall Crew ii. Wks. 1873 III. 376 Flapiacks, and Pan-puddings. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 272 Like a flap-jack in a fryin' pan. 1842Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1883) 303 We had a splendid breakfast of flapjacks, or slapjacks, and whortleberries. 1871M. A. Barker Christmas Cake in Four Quarters 294 We told Munro we'd have his flap-jacks for second course. 1945A. P. Harper Camping & Bushcraft in N.Z. i. 21 To make a flap-jack, mix some flour and baking powder into a thick paste.
Comb.1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. vii. 135 Longhurst came upon the boards as a flapjack-frier.
c. A biscuit usu. containing rolled oats, syrup, etc. (Not known to some correspondents in S. England.)
1935M. Struan Pop. Home Cookery 234 Date Flap⁓jacks... Cream the butter and sugar and when they are soft work in the rolled oats. Press half the mixture in a well-buttered tin, and spread with the dates. 1942Radiation Cookery Bk. (ed. 24) 149 Flap Jacks. Ingredients. 6 oz. butter or margarine. 8 oz. rolled oats. 6 oz. Demerara sugar. Pinch of salt. 1950Good Housek. Tea-Time Fare 34 Syrup Flapjack... Melt the margarine, sugar and syrup together, add the rolled oats..and bake it in a moderately hot oven. When the flapjack is golden-brown, remove it from oven. 1962Guardian 17 Nov. 12/6 A proper recipe for genuine oats-and-treacle flapjacks.
2. a. A kind of hydraulic machine (see quot. 1842). b. dial. The lapwing.
1842Taylor in Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. II. 102 For low falls [of water] there were many machines..for instance..the old ‘flap-jack’, with a reservoir of water at one end of a beam and a pump at the other. 1847Halliwell, Flap-jack, the lapwing. Suffolk.
3. A vanity case for face-powder.
1934Punch 16 May 553/3 A flapjack with a powder⁓puff Might well be indiscreet [as a present]. 1941S. Gibbons Rich House vii. 75 Slowly opening her handbag and taking out her flapjack. |