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Pancake vs Pajeon - What's the difference?

pancake | pajeon |

As a proper noun pancake

is .

As a noun pajeon is

a korean pancake made with green onions.

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

    pajeon

    English

    (wikipedia pajeon)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A Korean pancake made with green onions.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 23, author=Julia Moskin, title=Culinary Diplomacy With a Side of Kimchi, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But high-end restaurants in Seoul are now turning away from Western food and toward Korean tradition, drawing on both everyday snacks like pajeon and painstaking arts like the making of tteok, sticky rice pounded into a dizzying array of shapes, colors and flavors. }}

    See also

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