Pone vs Johnnycake - What's the difference?
pone | johnnycake | Synonyms |
(legal, historical) A writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts.
(wikipedia pone)
(Southern US) A baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs.
* 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, page 11:
Pone is a synonym of johnnycake.
As nouns the difference between pone and johnnycake
is that pone is (legal|historical) a writ in law used by the superior courts to remove cases from inferior courts or pone can be (southern us) a baked or fried cornbread (bread made of cornmeal), often made without milk or eggs or pone can be the last player to bet or play in turn while johnnycake is (us) a dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.pone
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pone and its source, .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) apones, .Noun
(en noun)- ‘Maybe you could fetch me just a little piece of pone ,’ I said, pleading, thinking: Big talk will fetch you nothing but nigger talk might work.
