Word Meanings - PANCAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.

Related words: (words related to PANCAKE)

• FRIVOL
  To act frivolously; to trifle. Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er , Friv"ol*ler, n.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• FRIZZLER
  One who frizzles.
• FRIVOLISM
  Frivolity. Pristley.
• FRIBBLE
  Frivolous; trifling; sily.
• FRIEZED
  Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t.,
• FRIESISH
  Friesic.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
  a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.
• GRIDDLE
  W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
• FRINGY
  Aborned with fringes. Shak.
• BATTERING-RAM
  1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so
• PANCAKE
  A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.
• FRICATION
  Friction. Bacon.
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• SHROVE
  imp. of Shrive. Shrove Sunday, Quinguagesima Sunday. -- Shrove Tuesday, the Tuesday following Quinguagesima Sunday, and preceding the first day of Lent, or Ash Wednesday. Note: It was formerly customary in England, on this day, for the people to
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• BATTER
  To flatten by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly. (more info) batuere to strike, beat; of unknown origin. Cf. Abate, Bate to 1. To beat with successive blows; to beat repeatedly and with violence, so as to bruise,
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• AFFRIGHTER
  One who frightens.