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Pancake vs Fritter - What's the difference?

pancake | fritter |

As nouns the difference between pancake and fritter

is that pancake is a thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter while fritter is a dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.

As verbs the difference between pancake and fritter

is that pancake is to make a pancake landing while fritter is to occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.

As a proper noun Pancake

is {{surname|lang=en}.

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

    fritter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
  • A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
  • * Hudibras
  • And cut whole giants into fritters .

    Derived terms

    * apple fritter * corn fritter * French fritter * fritter batter * fritterware * oyster fritter * rice fritter * spam fritter

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
  • I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.
    He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.
  • To sinter.
  • To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
  • To break into small pieces or fragments.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.

    Derived terms

    * fritter away * frittered * fritterer * frittering

    See also

    * tempura ----