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hotcake

hotcake

12 1.0
A thin round cake made from batter and cooked on a pan, often served for breakfast
  • noun
  • /ˈhɑːtˌkeɪk/
  • US
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  • It's 11:13, and the hotcakes are still piling up.

Examples

  • 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.

  • You guys ready for some hotcakes?

  • 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.

  • After mixing the batter, pour it onto the griddle to cook the hotcakes until golden brown.

Synonyms

pancake
vshotcake
316 1.0

A thin, flat fried cake made from batter often eaten for breakfast

is the same food but focuses on being served hot
flapjack
vshotcake
  • UK
8 1.6

A thin flat cake you fry on both sides from batter, often eaten for breakfast

is the widely used general name outside that region
potato pancake
vshotcake
3 1.3

A thin round fried food made from grated potato, egg, and a little flour

is a batter based cake fried on a griddle rather than grated potato
buttermilk pancake
vshotcake
1 1.0

A light, fluffy pancake made with buttermilk

is the standard thin batter cake without that specific ingredient
French pancake
vshotcake
1 3.5

A very thin pancake rolled, sometimes folded with sweet or salty filling

is thicker and normally served flat rather than rolled or filled
griddlecake
vshotcake
1 3.9

A flat round cake like a pancake cooked on a hot griddle

is the common kitchen term for the same pan cooked cake
buckwheat pancake
vshotcake
1 3.0

A thin, flat cake made from buckwheat flour often eaten for breakfast

is the general version not limited to that buckwheat flour
buckwheat cake
vshotcake
1 4.5

A thin pancake made with buckwheat flour often served for breakfast

is the broader thin batter cake not specific to that flour
hot cake
vshotcake
  • US
1.0

A flat round cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides on a hot pan

is the identical form written as one word
flapcake
vshotcake
8.3

A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides in a pan

is the broader everyday name for that breakfast item
battercake
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  • US
4.6

A thin flat cake you make from batter and fry on both sides like a pancake

is the shorter common name used instead of that description
flannel cake
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  • US
5.5

A thin pancake fried on both sides and often served for breakfast

is the general label covering similar thin breakfast cakes
flannel-cake
vshotcake
  • Archaic
7.7

A thin flat cake cooked on a hot pan like a pancake

is the same idea but shown with the non hyphenated spelling
German pancake
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  • US
3.0

A thick, puffy pancake baked in the oven and often served with lemon, sugar, or fruit

is cooked on a griddle and is flat rather than oven puffed

Surface Forms

hotcake singular
hotcakes plural

Morphology

hotcake = hot + cake (transparent) = hot + cake

The word is a straightforward compound of 'hot' and 'cake', directly describing a cake that is served hot.

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.