pancaken.
/ˈpankeɪk/, /ˈpaŋkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈpænˌkeɪk/ 1.
a. A thin flat cake of batter, fried on both sides in a pan. In Britain made without a raising agent, and similar to a crêpe (cf. crêpe n. 3); in North America made with a raising agent, and similar to a drop scone or Scotch pancake (cf. drop-scone n. at scone n. 1 and Scotch pancake n. at Scotch adj. and n.3 Compounds 2).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] > pancake
froise1338
pancakea1400
flawnc1400
crust-rollc1430
pancake wisea1500
flapjack1620
torteau1625
egg-fraise1693
wafer pancake1769
flamm1819
blini1842
leather-jacket1846
round robin1847
Pfannkuchen1856
palacinka1884
blintz1903
latke1909
crêpe Suzette1922
Dutch baby1927
spring roll1927
Palatschinken1929
egg roll1938
tostada1945
crêpe1951
ploye1959
palacsinta1964
pancake roll1967
appam1972
popiah1975
uthappam1976
a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 89 Lagana..pankakus.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 46 (MED) Putte a litel of þe Whyte comade in þe panne, & late flete al a-brode as þou makyst a pancake.
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 92 A panne cake, opacum, laganum.
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. v. 53 For their meate they vse, moche a kynde of pancake made of rye meale.
1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. Dv And euery man and maide doe take their turne, And tosse their Pancakes vp for feare they burne.
1637 Deloney's Gentle Craft (new ed.) i. xvi. sig. I3v Let them lacke neither Pudding pyes nor Pancakes.
1723 J. Barker Patch-work Screen for Ladies Introd. sig. a3v The Blankets were of Thread-bare Home-spun Stuff, which felt and smelt like a Pancake fry'd in Grease.
1764 Oxf. Sausage 22 Let glad Shrove-Tuesday bring the Pancake thin.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) at Pancake Tuesday In some farm houses the servants, according to seniority, fried and tossed the pancake.
1898 J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 246 'E does a bunk dahn the street, lookin' fer all the world like a hunder-done pancake.
1968 J. Fleming Hell's Belle i. 49 They..ate Breton pancakes filled with cheese and mushrooms.
1988 P. Monette Borrowed Time vii. 182 I went down to Pennyfeathers for a late breakfast of pancakes.
b. As the type of something thin and flat. Usually in (as) flat as a pancake: completely flat.The phrase is also used with figurative senses of flat.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > broad in relation to thickness [phrase]
(as) flat as a pancake1611
as flat as a flounder1856
the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > on a level surface [phrase] > very flat
(as) flat as a pancake1611
the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > feeling wearied or bored [phrase] > wearisome or tedious
(as) flat as a pancake1611
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1889
crack is wack1986
the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > object > typically
fluke?a1400
pancake1757
1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. D A continuall Simon and Iudes raine Beate all your fethers as flat downe as pancakes.
1757 T. Smollett Reprisal i. ii I'll beat their skulls to a pancake.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy III. xxvii. 138 He has crush'd his nose..as flat as a pancake to his face.
1849 T. C. Haliburton Old Judge I. xi. 305 The first man that lays a hand on me, I'll level him as flat as a pancake: so stand clear.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped xxvi. 261 Coming to the edge of the hills [we] saw the whole Carse of Stirling underfoot, as flat as a pancake.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 702 The last [stout] they sent from O Rourkes was as flat as a pancake.
1959 Daily Tel. 14 Mar. 6 His statement to the House of Commons yesterday fell as flat as a pancake.
1992 D. Neuhaus in First Fictions Introd. 11 341 It's flat as a pancake and there's nothing but scrub growing along the side of the road.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > subphylum Eleutherozoa > class Echinoidea > member of (sea-urchin)
echinusc1374
urchin fish1566
ruffe1591
sea-hedgehog1598
urchin1601
sea urchin1605
sea-bear1611
sea-chestnut1613
sea-thistle1661
sea-apple1666
sea-egg1666
button-fish1668
sea-button1668
urchin-worm1668
whore's egg1674
sea-shilling1713
echinite1750
echinid1835
pancake1843
echinoid1864
oursin1914
kina1960
1843 W. Humble Dict. Geol. Pancake, the name given by Klein to the Echinodiscus laganum, a species of fossil echinus, belonging to the division catocysti.
1870 C. F. Hartt Thayer Expedition v. 235 I collected on the shore here a great number of specimens of the pancake sea-urchin (Encope emarginatus), so common in the Bahia de Todos or Santos.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > card or cards > [noun] > specific arrangement of six overlapping cards
pancake1844
1844 A. Smith Adventures Mr. Ledbury I. ix I'll bet you..that I make the whole of this pack of cards into ‘pancakes’.
4. Nautical. A piece of pancake ice (see Compounds 2).
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > floating ice in thin flat pieces
pancake ice1815
pancake1860
1860 F. J. Cox Natural Phenomena 37 It [sc. sludge of ice] forms itself into small plates, which, being rounded by continual rubbing, are called by the sailors pancakes.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Pancakes, thin floating rounded spots of snow ice, in the Arctic seas, and reckoned the first indication of the approach of winter, in August.
1984 A. C. Duxbury & A. Duxbury Introd. World's Oceans iv. 136 As the freezing continues the pancakes move about.
5. U.S. More fully pancake hat. A type of flat hat or cap.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat
hateOE
nab-cheat?1536
nab1673
kelp1736
mitre1807
tile1813
gossamer1836
cady1846
roof1857
roofer1859
pancake1875
lid1896
nudger1902
tit for tat1925
titfer1927
sky1944
1875 E. S. Nadal Impressions London Social Life 143 The cap was peculiar, though about the year '56 we had something like it called the ‘Pancake’.
1945 Amer. Speech 20 233/1 She had on her duty dress and a French pancake.
1975 G. Howell In Vogue 188 (caption) Pancake and huge gloves in looped emerald green crochet.
2002 P. Auster Bk. Illusions ii. 32 Chaplin's tramp with the floppy shoes and ragged clothes;..Keaton's saphead with the pancake hat and frozen face.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > imitation or substitute
pannus corium1841
pancake1875
Rexine1903
Vynide1943
mock croc1963
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1601/2 Pancake,..a factitious leather made of scraps agglutinated by cement or glue, and pressed into a flat cake for insoles, etc.
7. In plural. English regional. (a) (The leaves of) the plant navelwort, Umbilicus rupestris; (b) (the fruits or seeds of) the common mallow, Malva sylvestris (cf. pancake plant n. at Compounds 2).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Malvaceae (mallows and allies) > [noun]
hockc725
malloweOE
crisp mallowa1300
altheaa1398
mawa1400
maula1425
alceac1440
malva1527
vervain mallow1548
cut mallow1565
dwarf mallow1578
curled mallow1620
musk1728
Sida1753
curled-leaved mallow1754
marshmallow1814
round dock1825
mallow wort1845
crisped-leaved mallow1846
Modiola1856
velvet-leaf1856
fairy cheeses1869
pancakes1882
frog cheese1886
musk plant1898
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Crassulaceae (stonecrop and allies) > [noun] > navelwort
pennywortc1300
wall penny-grassa1400
navelwortc1450
wall penny grass1562
Venus' navel1592
hipwort1597
sea-navel1597
sea-navelwort1597
sea-pennywort1597
Venus' garden1597
cotyledon1601
kidneywort1640
Venus's navelwort1678
penny pie1707
acetabulum1727
penny leaf1782
pancakes1882
1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 43 Pan-cakes, Cotyledon umbilicus, L. From the shape of the leaves.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 368 Pancake Plant, Malva sylvestris L., the fruits, Pancakes. N. Linc.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 368 Pancakes, leaves of Cotyledon Umbilicus, L.—Dev.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 218/1 Pancake plant/Pancakes, mallow.
8. Aeronautics. A vertical descent made by an aircraft in a level position (e.g. as a result of a stall); spec. (more fully pancake descent, pancake landing) a landing in which an aircraft drops vertically after having levelled out close to the ground. Cf. pancake v. 2.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > emergency > with undercarriage retracted
pancake1912
pancaking1912
belly flop1938
belly-landing1939
1912 Aero Mar. 66/1 Pride cometh before a pancake.
1913 C. Mellor Airman 25 Landings must be ‘normal’—not of the ‘pancake’ order.
1914 W. J. Claxton Mastery of Air xlviii. 249 It is considered faulty piloting to make a pancake descent where there is ample landing space.
1938 Encycl. Brit. Bk. of Year 57/2 Nothing better could be expected than a ‘pancake’ landing which would destroy the undercarriage without seriously injuring the crew.
1991 A. Hayward Phantom Unmasked (1992) (BNC) 3 Fortunately he managed to make a ‘pancake’ landing on the water and..was rescued by a destroyer.
9. A proprietary name for: foundation or other make-up in the form of a flat solid layer of compressed powder, widely used in the theatre. Also more generally (colloquial): make-up (usually with the notion of heavy application).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > bases
base1889
powder base1916
foundation make-up1929
pancake1937
1937 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 13 July 251/1 Max Factor & Co., Los Angeles, Calif. Pan-cake. The word ‘cake’ is disclaimed apart from the mark. For cosmetic in the nature of a solidified cream used for a make-up base.
1940 Sears Catal. Spring–Summer 99 (caption) Pan-Cake Makeup.
1953 New Yorker 13 June 61/1 Like his Cabinet members, he used pancake makeup.
1962 E. O'Brien Lonely Girl ii. 22 I put pancake on Baba's back to hide her spots.
1990 K. Lawrence Springs Living Water v. 104 In Rose's top left-hand drawer was more makeup. ‘Where's my pancake?’ her voice might shrill on Saturday night.
Compounds
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a.
pancake batter n.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > batter or cake-mix
battera1475
pancake batter1615
cake mix1913
mix1922
sponge mixture1926
1615 G. Markham Eng. Hus-wife in Countrey Contentments 77 Mixe..til it be a little thicker then Pan-cake batter.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery vii. 69 Make it up into a thick Batter with Flour, like a Pancake Batter.
1865 Mrs. Goodfellow's Cookery as it should Be 156 Stir this well, to about the consistency of pancake batter.
1990 Compact Disc 7 Aug. 7/2 In the carousel changer, discs are plopped into a circular tray like pancake batter into a frying pan.
b.
pancake-making n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun]
pot?c1225
cooking1596
coction1605
cocture1662
concoction1680
kitchening1842
slow cooking1851
pancake-making1904
cook-up1911
pot wrestling1914
1904 N.E.D. at Pancake sb. Pancake-making.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 3 Apr. 7/2 He closely followed it [sc. a discussion], occasionally offered a suggestion, eagerly seized, tossed about, pancake-making fashion, and in the main adopted.
1990 T. Barry & R. Garst Feeding the Crisis 4 This week, perhaps a pancake-making class; next week, the art of preparing a white sauce.
c.
pancake-shaped adj.
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1902 Daily Chron. 19 Nov. 8/5 She wears a pancake shaped silk hat on her head.
1996 Sci. Amer. Jan. 60 (caption) Only a tiny fraction of that planet's surface exhibits pancake-shaped plateaus.
d.
pancake fashion adv.
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1864 J. C. Atkinson Stanton Grange 164 I have seen them [sc. hares] work their way—pancake fashion, I should call it—under a wire fence.
1947 R. Lee Electronic Transformers & Circuits viii. 211 If the secondary current is heavy, coils are wound pancake-fashion and connected in parallel.
1975 L. Perl Slumps, Grunts, & Snickerdoodles ii. 30 They were soon back to..baking their bread on a greased fireplace griddle, pancake fashion.
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pancake breakfast n. North American a breakfast (esp. for a large number of people) consisting of pancakes (usually served with sausages and bacon); spec. such a breakfast held as a fund-raising event.
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1923 C. W. Camp Artisan in Elizabethan Lit. ii. 34 In accordance with his youthful vow, he invites, on Shrove Tuesday, the apprentices to a pancake breakfast in his own house.
1957 J. Kerouac Let. 14 Dec. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 91 I've just written new novel you'll like, about Gary Snyder, about doublebitted axes and pancake breakfasts in North woods.
1995 Denver Post 15 Jan. d4/4 Maybe Gingrich will be tempted to..start attending all those Iowa corn boils and New Hampshire pancake breakfasts.
pancake coil n. an electrical inductance coil which is spirally wound so as to be flat, or has a diameter significantly greater than its axial length.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > transformer > [noun] > induction coil
pancake coil1910
reactor1915
induction coil1943
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrically induced magnetism > electromagnetic induction > [noun] > induction coil > types of coil
inductorium1875
Tesla coil1896
basket winding1910
pancake coil1910
honeycomb coil1921
basket coil1923
Helmholtz1962
1910 H. M. Hobart Dict. Electr. Engin. I. 108 Pancake coil, a flat former-wound coil used in the construction of the early smooth-core rotating armatures of alternators. The term is also sometimes applied to the flat separately insulated unit coil used in modern high-pressure transformers.
1961 Guardian 18 Jan. 1/1 The transformer..will be made up of a series of ‘pancake’ coils of primary and secondary windings.
2002 Cryogenics 42 378/2 The tape was wound in the shape of a pancake coil on the 500 mm-diameter alumina plate.
Pancake Day n. Shrove Tuesday, so called from the custom of making pancakes on this day to use up eggs and fat before Lent.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > period following > first week of > Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of > Tuesday in
good tideOE
Fastingong1389
Shroveday14..
Fastern's Een1416
Fastgong1429
Fastingong Tuesday1448
Fastingong Evec1450
Fastern's Evec1475
Shrove Tuesdaya1500
Shrift Tuesday1542
shrift's even1568
Fastens Tuesday1585
gut-tide1608
Mardi Gras1699
Pancake Day1700
Pancake Tuesday1790
sharp-Tuesday1858
1700 F. Willis Let. 13 Feb. in M. M. Verney Verney Lett. (1930) I. v. 70 This being Pancake and Fritter Day & I have Companey makes me to begin my letter this morning.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) II. 242 Pancake-day, Shrove Tuesday.
1992 R. Barnard Posthumous Papers (BNC) 92 She played with the frying-pan as if it were Pancake Day.
pancake house n. originally U.S. a restaurant or cafe specializing in pancakes.
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1967 C. S. Bell Consumer Choice in Amer. Econ. vi. 231 A great variety exists—restaurants, cafeterias, drive-ins, roadside ice-cream stands, pizza palaces, and pancake houses.
2001 N.Y. Times 3 June xiv. 16/1 A brief stint working at the Tropicana factory and, another time, washing dishes at Grandma's Restaurant, a pancake house on Route 440.
pancake ice n. floating ice in thin flat pieces, forming in polar seas at the approach of winter.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > floating ice in thin flat pieces
pancake ice1815
pancake1860
1815 W.Scoresby On Greenland Ice 64 Pancake ice is formed in masses so small and so strong that the swell will not divide them.
1886 A. W. Greely 3 Years Arctic Service I. vi. 56 No semblance of a pack was noted until about 5 p.m. It then consisted of small pieces of pancake ice, which would in no way interfere with the progress of any steaming vessel.
1986 B. Lopez Arctic Dreams vi. 211 The crystals congeal in large, round plates that develop upturned edges from bumping against each other—a stage called pancake ice.
pancake lens n. (a) Physics an electron lens of flat, circular form (rare); (b) Photography a thin flat primary lens for a camera.
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1969 R. Bassett & T. Mulvey in Zeitschr. f. Angewandte Physik 27 143/1 Eq. (1)..is still a good approximation for helices in which the axial thickness S is less than one tenth of the mean diameter of the helix. Such lenses are known as ‘pancake’ lenses.
1986 R. H. Geiss & A. D. Romig in D. C. Joy et al. Princ. Analyt. Electron Microsc. ii. 53 The first is the ‘pancake’ lens, Figure 24, which consists of a partly shielded, flat or helical coil.
1997 Photo Answers Mar. 53/1 Mick Bidewell's submission, in which the Pentax 40mm f/2.8 was described as a ‘pancake lens’ was no mis-print.
2005 Digital Photographer No. 31. 101/3 Paired with the new 40mm pancake lens, the camera takes images that are perfectly sharp.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 13 May b8/5 Both cameras will be sold with either a 16-millimeter pancake lens or an 18- to 55-millimeter zoom.
pancake plant n. English regional and U.S. regional the common mallow, Malva sylvestris.
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1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 368 Pancake Plant, Malva sylvestris L... N. Linc.
1924 Amer. Botanist 30 105 Malva rotundifolia..known to children as ‘cheeses,’ and ‘pancake-plant’ because of the round flat groups of ovaries which are edible when young.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 218/1 Pancake plant/Pancakes, mallow.
pancake race n. a race traditionally held in some places on Shrove Tuesday, in which the participants toss a pancake in a pan as they run.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing on foot > [noun] > other foot races
smock-race1707
broose1786
smock-racing1790
sack running1801
torch-race1812
torch-course1839
sack race1859
potato race1865
obstacle race1869
three-legged race1876
mud run1888
egg-and-spoon race1894
cross-country1905
obstacle course1942
runathon1943
pancake race1951
fun run1960
fun running1966
1951 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Jan. 3/2 (caption) Mrs. Virginia Leete..takes a spill in the snow during a practice run..in preparation for the annual pancake race scheduled for Shrove Tuesday.
1986 Daily Express 19 Aug. 16 They were wont to run pancake races as the cabaret between the contests.
pancake roll n. = spring roll n. at spring n.1 Compounds 3e(a).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] > pancake
froise1338
pancakea1400
flawnc1400
crust-rollc1430
pancake wisea1500
flapjack1620
torteau1625
egg-fraise1693
wafer pancake1769
flamm1819
blini1842
leather-jacket1846
round robin1847
Pfannkuchen1856
palacinka1884
blintz1903
latke1909
crêpe Suzette1922
Dutch baby1927
spring roll1927
Palatschinken1929
egg roll1938
tostada1945
crêpe1951
ploye1959
palacsinta1964
pancake roll1967
appam1972
popiah1975
uthappam1976
1967 Observer 30 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 38/4 Pancake roll, a pancake with savoury meat and vegetable fillings, deep fried.
1969 O. Blakeston For crying out Shroud vii. 59 Jim orders fried oysters and crispy pancake rolls.
1976 M. Butterworth Remains to be Seen iv. 68 The diligent Chinese..laboured over their crab foo yung and their crispy pancake rolls.
Pancake Tuesday n. originally English regional (northern) = Pancake Day n.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > period following > first week of > Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of > Tuesday in
good tideOE
Fastingong1389
Shroveday14..
Fastern's Een1416
Fastgong1429
Fastingong Tuesday1448
Fastingong Evec1450
Fastern's Evec1475
Shrove Tuesdaya1500
Shrift Tuesday1542
shrift's even1568
Fastens Tuesday1585
gut-tide1608
Mardi Gras1699
Pancake Day1700
Pancake Tuesday1790
sharp-Tuesday1858
1790 A. Wheeler Westmorland Dial. i. 31 We come tae an Yale Hause, whaar ther wor tae be Cock-feightin, for it wur Pankeak Tuesday.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Pancake Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday; on which it is a general custom in the North to have pancakes.
1990 Daily Star 20 Feb. 20 Pancake Tuesday's just a week away.
pancake turner n. Cookery (now U.S.) an implement consisting of a long handle connected to a broad, flat blade, used during cooking to lift and turn over food items.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vireurs d'aumelettes, pancake-turners.
1850 T. J. Crowen Amer. Lady's Syst. Cookery 34 Fish should be turned with a broad blade knife, or a pancake turner.
1974 K. Graber Nebraska Pioneer Cookbk. 136 Make a rich puff paste or short biscuit crust, as preferred... Remove as carefully as possible to a baking sheet. Use a pancake turner to assist in doing this deftly.
2000 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Electronic ed.) 12 Aug. 28 Use pancake turner to transfer cookies to cooling rack.
Derivatives
ˈpancake-like adj. that resembles a pancake; flat.
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1887 W. Rye Month on Norfolk Broads 75 A mound, a considerable one for this pancake-like county.
1990 T. Ruprecht Toronto's Many Faces 168 The staples of a Mexican diet include tortillas (flat, pancake-like bread), chilies, frijoles..and chorizo.
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1867 Cornhill Mag. Mar. 362 Her allowance would not admit of..a surreptitious egg, might her desire pancakewards be never so strong.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] > pancake
froise1338
pancakea1400
flawnc1400
crust-rollc1430
pancake wisea1500
flapjack1620
torteau1625
egg-fraise1693
wafer pancake1769
flamm1819
blini1842
leather-jacket1846
round robin1847
Pfannkuchen1856
palacinka1884
blintz1903
latke1909
crêpe Suzette1922
Dutch baby1927
spring roll1927
Palatschinken1929
egg roll1938
tostada1945
crêpe1951
ploye1959
palacsinta1964
pancake roll1967
appam1972
popiah1975
uthappam1976
a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 222 (MED) Of youre atyre..with dagged hood, leyd on pancake wyse..ye ar a louely may.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. E3v [She] makes him sit at table Pancake wise, Flat flat, God knowes.
ˈpancakish adj. rare that resembles a pancake in some way.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [adjective] > pancake
pancakish1883
1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 62 A pancakeish omelette and wine were very acceptable.
1949 M. Flexner Out of Kentucky Kitchens 120 There are many versions of this traditional British dish [sc. Yorkshire Pudding], but the genuine article is a thin pancakish affair, crisp and crunchy on the outside.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
pancakev.
/ˈpankeɪk/, /ˈpaŋkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈpænˌkeɪk/ 1. transitive. To flatten or squeeze flat, esp. destructively; to knock down. Also figurative.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > make broad in relation to thickness [verb (transitive)]
drive?a1475
flat1651
flatten1728
smooth1859
spread1859
pancake1879
1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. 226 These conquerors of mountains pancaked on the rocks in desperate embraces.
1934 Journalism Q. Dec. 353 Pancake v. (boxing), to knock out.
1941 Time 6 Oct. 17/1 A..near-hurricane..that killed three people, leveled grain fields, pancaked buildings, blocked highways.
1941 Time 20 Oct. 2/1 Starting the bill in the House, with a steam roller set to pancake all opposition.
1953 D. Thomas Let. 22 June in Sel. Lett. (1966) 409 Sober, airsick, pancaked flat, I saw these intelligent old friends as a warren full of blockish stinkers.
1992 Harpers & Queen Nov. 162/2 (caption) He was pancaked under a tractor.
2. intransitive. Aeronautics. Of an aircraft: to descend vertically in a level position (e.g. as a result of a stall); spec. to make a pancake landing. Of a pilot: to cause an aircraft to descend or land in this way. Also in extended use. See pancake n. 8.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > land > make emergency landing > with undercarriage retracted
pancake1911
1911 Aero Aug. 136/2 In the meanwhile Conway Jenkins had..‘pancaked’ badly, and smashed it pretty conclusively.
1914 H. M. Buist Aircraft in German War 35 The craft pancaking, diving and banking are monoplanes.
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxv. 271 All at once she [sc. a lorry] slithered like hell, and, knifing a corner, pancaked on to a mulga-tree.
1943 P. Brennan et al. Spitfires over Malta 91 I told my boys to pancake as soon as they had finished engaging.
1990 C. Allen Savage Wars of Peace (1991) 94 This plane had crash-landed..pancaking down on this tiny four-hundred-metre strip and running on to the end of the runway.
3. transitive. To cover with, or as if with, pancake make-up (see pancake n. 9).
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1973 R. L. Simon Big Fix vii. 50 His face was pancaked in layers, his hair lacquered.
1993 R. Connolly Sunday Morning (BNC) 150 Ambition was pancaked on his pretty face.
Derivatives
ˈpancaked adj.
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the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [adjective] > made broad and flat
flatted1578
flattened1796
pancaked1909
1909 Proc. 12th Ann. Meeting (Proc. Amer. Soc. Testing Materials) 9 338 If such layers of large pancaked cavities ran throughout each and every plate, then they ought to attract great attention.
1958 Times 8 Feb. 9/1 Amsterdam..is but a score of Dutch miles across the dyked pancaked land.
1995 Entertainm. Weekly 13 Oct. 92/1 The thriving American Theatuh [sic] of 1950 looked down its elitist, pancaked nose at Hollywood's happy endings.
ˈpancaking n. Aeronautics the action of making a pancake landing (see sense 2).
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > landing > emergency > with undercarriage retracted
pancake1912
pancaking1912
belly flop1938
belly-landing1939
1912 Aero Mar. 66/1 He..then shut off his engine, calmly waiting for the machine to return to the ground, which it did with a resultant bump, commonly known to the aviation world as pancaking (falling flatly).
1986 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 1 June ii. 1/1 A wire to the rudder broke, sending his plane into a 1,2000-foot descent, finally pancaking in Palm City.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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