Hoecake vs Pancake - What's the difference?
hoecake | pancake |
A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made of water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe (not a gardening hoe!) now it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
*In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.
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
As nouns the difference between hoecake and pancake
is that hoecake is a type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made of water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe (not a gardening hoe!) now it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet 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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(en noun)See also
* johnnycakeReferences
* * .pancake
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(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