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Hotcake vs Pancake - What's the difference?

hotcake | pancake |

Pancake is a synonym of hotcake.



As nouns the difference between hotcake and pancake

is that hotcake is a pancake while pancake is a thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.

As a verb pancake is

to make a pancake landing.

As a proper noun Pancake is

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hotcake

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A pancake.
    • For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.

    Related terms

    * sell like hotcakes

    pancake

    English

    (wikipedia pancake)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
  • (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
  • (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
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    • Synonyms

    * (thin fried batter cake) or crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikelet

    Derived terms

    * flat as a pancake * pancake landing * Pancake Day * pancake tortoise

    Verb

    (pancak)
  • To make a pancake landing
  • (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
  • To flatten violently.
  • * 2011 , Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters
    • Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters

    See also

    * blintz * okonomiyaki * Pan-Cake * waffle English compound words