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Shrove Tuesday food
Answer for the clue "Shrove Tuesday food ", 7 letters:
pancake
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Word definitions for pancake in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle [syn: battercake , flannel cake , flannel-cake , flapcake , flapjack , griddlecake , hotcake , hot cake ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to squeeze flat," 1879, from pancake (n.). Later, of aircraft, "to fall flat" (1911), with figurative extension. Related: Pancaked ; pancaking .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES flat as a pancake (= very flat ) ▪ The countryside near there is flat as a pancake . Pancake Day pancake make-up (= very thick make-up worn by actors ) ▪ His face was covered by thick pancake makeup. COLLOCATIONS FROM ...
Usage examples of pancake.
With that Bill lays his arm on him to raise him up, for he said he was squeezed as flat as a pancake, and afore Nabb knew where he was, Bill rolled him right over and was atop of him.
Fairly and Annette, dining on pancakes and juice, and Lars Aquavit, finishing a last cup of coffee.
As soon as the equipment was off-loaded, the choppers took off and began circling the site, taping aerial and establishing shots of the glass pancake that had supported Amos Bulla for six fat, happy years.
Lottie was at the little electric ring making eggless pancakes to go with their ersatz coffee.
A contrary pancake surely, a fingerish atrocity but not without a queer charm all its own.
Soon, they were swamped with the language of fistiana, with cheering swells and rapid-fire descriptions of a brute struggle between two cherubic assassins on cauliflower row, each landing pancake blows that knocked the gallery gods cuckoo.
Cathy as she piped out more creme fraiche on the little buckwheat pancakes that were disappearing with alarming speed from the platters.
Behind him, the griddle hissed when fresh pancake batter touched down upon the hot metal.
The three pancakes on the griddle were holding their bubbles in tiny holes near their crisping edges.
I put a slice of duck on a pancake, brushed on the hoisin sauce with the scallion brush, put the scallion on top of the duck, folded the pancake over and took a bite.
Peking duckslivers of duck served with shreds of crisp pancake and a drizzle of hoisin sauce, all presented on porcelain Chinese soup spoons.
I stopped daydreaming and rejoined Chapman and Wallace in conversation, as the waiter hacked at the carcass of the duck with amazing speed and accuracy, wrapping and twisting the slivers of fowl in paper-thin pancakes stuffed with scallions and hoisin sauce.
When both were in their relatively mixable and un-smelly dry states, she would blend them with flour to make healthful, if stodgy, pancakes for cold winter mornings.
Her host stood at the stove, flipping the sweet potato pancakes she had molded earlier.
The reem impaled him on both her horns, shook him loose, and kicked him into a gully like a pancake pile of steaming dung.