Pancake vs Fritter - What's the difference?
pancake | fritter |
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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To make a pancake landing
(construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
To flatten violently.
* 2011 , Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters
A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
* Hudibras
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.
To sinter.
To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
To break into small pieces or fragments.
* Alexander Pope
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
English
(wikipedia pancake)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (thin fried batter cake) or crepe, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake, pikeletDerived terms
* flat as a pancake * pancake landing * Pancake Day * pancake tortoiseVerb
(pancak)- 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 wordsfritter
English
(wikipedia fritter)Noun
(en noun)- And cut whole giants into fritters .
Derived terms
* apple fritter * corn fritter * French fritter * fritter batter * fritterware * oyster fritter * rice fritter * spam fritterVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.