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▪ I. pikelet1 local.|ˈpaɪklɪt|
Forms: 8 pyclet, 8– pikelet, picklet (dial. piklet, pyklet, piclate, pifelet, pyflet, etc.).
[Shortened from bara-picklet.]
a. A Western and Midland name for a small round tea-cake, made of fine flour; a crumpet, or, in some districts, a muffin.
1790Bystander 382 They were not muffins the chevalier hawked about, when a boy, but pyclets. 1797A. Seward Lett. (1811) V. 15 That doughty son of Themis..crumpled up his broad face like an half-toasted pikelet. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss., Picklet, or Pikelet, a small round light cake—a sort of muffin. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. i. 152 Janey..revelled in an early tea and pikelets. 1904Windsor Mag. Jan. 260/1 A silver-covered dish containing hot pikelets. [Mod. dial. forms: see Eng. Dial. Dict.]1974P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry iv. 43 Pikelet is used in the West and Midlands for a round teacake with small holes, to be buttered and toasted; but in other districts it seems to be a sticky unsweetened crumpet or else a muffin.
b. Chiefly Austral. and N.Z. A drop-scone.
Known personally to me in N.Z. in the 1920s.—R.W.B.
1943A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. IV. 97/2 Welsh Pikelets..flour..sugar..salt..bicarbonate of soda..buttermilk..Take a tablespoon of this batter and fry in a little hot lard..turn when half cooked. 1952B. Nilson Penguin Cookery Bk. xviii. 332 Drop Scones, Pikelets..or Scotch Pancakes. Cooking time 3–4 minutes each batch. 1963Moderna Språk LVII. i. 4 Pikelets,..This is the name of the most popular teacake in Australia, yet most Englishmen from South England at least, have never heard of it. 1965S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm vi. 83 ‘I've brought some pikelets,’ she said. 1970D. M. Davin Not Here, Not Now ii. ix. 119 Then she made pikelets for tea. 1977N.Z. Woman's Weekly 10 Jan. 54/1 It is then easy to slip the ice in sheets from the sides by using the spatula normally used for turning girdle scones or pikelets.
▪ II. pikelet2|ˈpaɪklɪt|
[f. pike n.4 + -let.]
A small or young pike.
1892Illustr. Sporting & Dram. News 2 July 604/1 A diminutive pikelet. 1896Gedney Angling Holidays 83 When killed, this hungry pikelet had in his pouch a trout nearly one quarter of a pound weight! |