hotcake
- noun
- /ˈhɑːtˌkeɪk/
- US
- It's 11:13, and the hotcakes are still piling up.
Examples
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But I remember my grandma making us pink, blue, and green hotcakes at Eastertime.
Blog text (20) -
For breakfast, I made fluffy hotcakes topped with maple syrup.
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You guys ready for some hotcakes?
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Mind if I order some hotcakes?
Fiction book (1994) -
Then she'd ladle out five or six little hotcakes at a time.
Blog text (20) -
She served delicious hotcakes with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.
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After mixing the batter, pour it onto the griddle to cook the hotcakes until golden brown.
Synonyms
A thin, flat fried cake made from batter often eaten for breakfast
A thin flat cake you fry on both sides from batter, often eaten for breakfast
A thin round fried food made from grated potato, egg, and a little flour
A light, fluffy pancake made with buttermilk
A very thin pancake rolled, sometimes folded with sweet or salty filling
A flat round cake like a pancake cooked on a hot griddle
A thin, flat cake made from buckwheat flour often eaten for breakfast
A thin pancake made with buckwheat flour often served for breakfast
A flat round cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides on a hot pan
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides in a pan
A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides like a pancake
A thin pancake fried on both sides and often served for breakfast
A thin flat cake cooked on a hot pan like a pancake
A thick, puffy pancake baked in the oven and often served with lemon, sugar, or fruit
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hotcake is simply made from hot and cake, so picture a small 'cake' fresh and 'hot' from the pan. So hotcake is another name for a pancake, a flat round batter cake cooked on a griddle and served hot.