pikelet
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7.2
A small thick round pancake that people eat with butter or jam
- noun
- /ˈpaɪklɪt/
- UK
:
pikelet
- At the village fair, they served hot pikelets with butter and homemade jam.
Examples
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For breakfast, she made a stack of pikelets topped with fresh strawberries and cream.
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He reaches for a pikelet; Pauline pushes him away from the table.
Fiction book (1994) -
Pikelets!
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Pikelets, maybe?
Fiction book (1996) -
CUT TO: INT. RIEPERS' HOUSE/KITCHEN - MORNING HONORA is mixing up some pikelet batter.
Fiction book (1994) -
He savored each bite of the fluffy pikelets as they melted in his mouth.
Synonyms
pancake
vspikelet
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1.0
A thin, flat fried cake made from batter often eaten for breakfast
is smaller and thicker and served often with butter or jam
7.0
A small round pancake often eaten for breakfast
is a smaller, thicker round version popular in Britain and Australia
4.6
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides like a pancake
is a small thick round form rather than a thin flat griddle cake
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Pikelet likely comes from an old dialect word pike for a small cake and the ending -let meaning 'little'. So a pikelet is literally a 'little cake', which explains why it is a small, thick pancake often served with butter or jam.