Definition of Flapjack
1. Noun. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
Generic synonyms: Cake
Specialized synonyms: Buckwheat Cake, Buttermilk Pancake, Blini, Bliny, Blintz, Blintze, Crape, Crepe, French Pancake, German Pancake, Pfannkuchen, Latke, Potato Pancake, Tortilla
Definition of Flapjack
1. n. A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake.
Definition of Flapjack
1. Noun. (American English) A pancake. ¹
2. Noun. (British) A bar made of (though not limited to) rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, and which is baked in a tray. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flapjack
1. a pancake [n -S]
Medical Definition of Flapjack
1. 1. A fklat cake turned on the griddle while cooking; a griddlecake or pacake. 2. A fried dough cake containing fruit; a turnover. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flapjack
Literary usage of Flapjack
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Knocking Around the Rockies by Ernest Ingersoll (1883)
"... I discovered a baking-powder can tucked into a cranny, as a receptacle for
the autographs of adventurous visitors. v' Y \ **"*, TOSSING THE flapjack. ..."
2. The Ten Books of the Merrymakers edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... on the flapjack and the coffee's in the pot; When the fly is in the butter—where
he'd rather be than not; When the cloth is on the table, and the plates ..."
3. Good Things: Ethical Recipes for Feast Days and Other Days, with Graces for by Isabel Goodhue (1911)
"... A flapjack PI AAKE almost any self-assured lover, brown J. him over the fire
of uncertainty first on one side of his nature, then give him a sudden turn ..."
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