as in crêpe
a flat cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides (as on a griddle) every Sunday morning, we have pancakes and bacon for breakfast

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Recent Examples of pancake Part of intelligence is knowing when to flip a pancake sitting on the griddle. Cade Metz, New York Times, 16 May 2025 Arepas are corn pancakes that can be consumed on their own or with an array of garnishes and fixings. Cat Sposato, AFAR Media, 15 May 2025 There will be pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and orange juice. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2025 The girls always have waffles, pancakes and berries. Ilana Kaplan, New York Times, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pancake
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Noun
  • Williams hit a flapjack on Hendry, who fell face-first onto the title, which laid on the canvas.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2025
  • So far, Carnarvon flapjack octopuses have only been found in a small region off the northwestern coast of Australia, the study said.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • If that’s not enough, order a single jumbo hotcake to really take you over the edge.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Aubrey's East Tennessee The fact that chicken fingers with honey mustard sell like hotcakes tells you a lot about Aubrey's, the beloved 14-restaurant group in East Tennessee (mostly Knoxville).
    Carolanne Griffith Roberts, Southern Living, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For an answer, there was only the sound of my blin cooking on the griddle, and the rise and fall of spoons.
    Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
  • The Red Star blin offers a satisfying burst of salty salmon roe, draped in hot, lacy pastry and delivered in minutes.
    Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
Noun
  • These thick, slightly sweet griddle cakes are often cooked fresh on board and served folded in half with a generous smear of butter and sugar, or sometimes a slice of tangy brown cheese.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • The egg, avocado and hash brown is one section of my breakfast, and the gluten-free chocolate chip oatmeal griddle cakes are the second.
    Lia Picard, New York Times, 3 May 2025

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“Pancake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pancake. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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