单词 | slapjack |
释义 | slapjackn. 1. North American. A griddle-cake. Cf. flapjack n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > griddle cake hot cake1683 griddle-cake1783 flannel-cake1792 slapjack1805 knead-cake1810 singing hinny1825 Welsh cake1867 tough-cake1881 1805 ‘An American Lady’ New Amer. Cookery 60 Indian Slapjack. One quart milk, 1 pint of Indian meal, 4 eggs, 4 spoons of flour. 1809 W. Irving Knickerbocker's Hist. N.Y. II. 187 To these..we are indebted for the invention of slap-jacks. 1810 M. van H. Dwight Jrnl. 7 Nov. in Journey to Ohio (1912) 35 Saturday morn... We have nothing to eat and can get nothing but some slapjacks at a baker's some distance off. 1820 W. Irving Legend Sleepy Hollow in Sketch Bk. vi. 89 Soft anticipations stole over his mind of dainty slap-jacks, well buttered, and garnished with honey or treacle. 1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 97 A dish of real Connecticut Slap Jacks, or Hominy. 1867 J. K. Lord At Home in Wilderness viii. 132 Then I can bake bread in my frying-pan, make and fry pancakes, or ‘slap-jacks’, as trappers call them. 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada vii. 148 Such dainties as thrice-turned slap-jacks. 1895 W. Elkington Five Years in Canada xiii. 111 Another favourite dish..is also made of flour and water, mixed into a batter and fried in fat; it is eaten with syrup or sugar, and is called ‘slap-jack’. 2. A card game in which a player gains by being the first to slap a jack when played. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike v He would labour with sublime patience at the perplexity of ‘Muggins’ or ‘Slap-Jack’, two games of cards, to enliven the dulness of a purely literary evening. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1805 |
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