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slapjack|ˈslæpdʒæk|
Also slap-jack, slap jack.
[f. slap v. + Jack n.1]
1. N. Amer. A griddle-cake. Cf. flapjack 1.
1805‘An American Lady’ New Amer. Cookery 60 Indian Slapjack. One quart milk, 1 pint of Indian meal, 4 eggs, 4 spoons of flour. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1865) 438 Dainty slapjacks, well buttered, and garnished with honey or treacle. 1836Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 97 A dish of real Connecticut Slap Jacks, or Hominy. 1867J. 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. 1872C. King Sierra Nevada vii. 148 Such dainties as thrice-turned slap-jacks. 1895W. 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.
1887M. 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. |