Meaning

noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

originEtymology tree Proto-Germanic *pannǭ Proto-West Germanic *pannā Old English panne Middle English panne Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake Middle English panne cake English pancake Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko…

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