hot cake
- noun
- /hɑt keɪk/
- US
:
panqueque
- Those hot cakes were great, weren't they?
Examples
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Says you make the best hot cakes in Miami.
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This stuff sells like hot cakes!
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Can you make some of your famous hot cakes?
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I'll try the hot cakes.
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It kind of sells like hot cakes.
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The last time I had hot cakes was when Tony covin dumped me.
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Hot cakes.
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I love having hot cakes for breakfast with maple syrup.
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The restaurant serves delicious hot cakes that everyone raves about.
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After flipping the hot cake, I let it cook for a few more minutes before serving.
Synonyms
316
1.0
A thin, flat fried cake made from batter often eaten for breakfast
12
1.0
A thin round cake made from batter and cooked on a pan, often served for breakfast
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1.6
A thin flat cake you fry on both sides from batter, often eaten for breakfast
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3.9
A flat round cake like a pancake cooked on a hot griddle
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides in a pan
A thin pancake fried on both sides and often served for breakfast
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides like a pancake
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'hot' + 'cake' yield the understandable idea of a cake that is served hot, so a learner who knows the words will grasp a basic literal sense. However, the specific lexicalized meaning ‘pancake’ (a flat, griddle-cooked item) and the idiomatic plural use ('hotcakes') are not fully predictable from the parts, so the relation is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Hot cake comes from the simple image of a small cake cooked on a hot griddle and served hot. Because people ate these flat, round cakes warm, the name came to mean 'pancake' or the thin breakfast cake we eat today.