A pancake is a thin, flat, circular piece of cooked batter made from milk, flour, and eggs. Pancakes are often rolled up or folded and eaten hot with a sweet or savoury filling inside. In America, pancakes are usually eaten for breakfast, with butter and maple syrup.
Synonyms: crêpe, drop scone or Scotch pancake More Synonyms of pancake
2. flat as a pancake
pancake in British English
(ˈpænˌkeɪk)
noun
1.
a.
a thin flat cake made from batter and fried on both sides, often served rolled and filled with a sweet or savoury mixture
b.
(as modifier)
pancake mix
2. a Scot name for drop scone
3.
a stick or flat cake of compressed make-up
4. Also called: pancake landing
an aircraft landing made by levelling out a few feet from the ground and then dropping onto it
verb
5.
to cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing or (of an aircraft) to make a pancakelanding
pancake in American English
(ˈpænˌkeɪk)
noun
1.
a thin, flat cake of batter fried on a griddle or in a pan; griddlecake; flapjack
2.
a landing in which the airplane levels off higher than for a normal landing, stalls, then drops almost vertically
: in full pancake landing
3. US
pancake makeup
verb intransitive, verb transitiveWord forms: ˈpanˌcaked or ˈpanˌcaking
4.
to make, or cause (an airplane) to make, a pancake landing
pancake in Hospitality
(pænkeɪk)
Word forms: (regular plural) pancakes
noun
(Hospitality (hotel): Food and drink, breakfast)
A pancake is a thin, flat, circular piece of cooked batter made from milk, flour, and eggs.Pancakes are usually eaten for breakfast, with butter and syrup.
The restaurant serves omelets, pancakes, and waffles at breakfast.
She ordered a stack of pancakes with butter.
She brought the customer's pancakes and offered the syrup.