flapjack

flap·jack

 (flăp′jăk′)

n.

1. See pancake.

2. Chiefly British A hard or chewy bar traditionally made from oats and brown sugar, softened with butter and golden syrup, and then baked.

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[Earlier flap, to flip (a pancake) + jack, fellow (as used to form the name of objects and contrivances).]

flapjack

(ˈflæpˌdʒæk)

n

1. (Cookery) a chewy biscuit made with rolled oats

2. (Cookery) US and Canadian and NZ another word for pancake

[C17: from flap (in the sense: toss) + jack¹]

flap•jack

(ˈflæpˌdʒæk)

n.

griddlecake; pancake.

[1590–1600]

flapjack

pancake

Flapjack

When this glossary was prepared, “flap-jack” was synonymous with pancake, but there were many different formulations for pancakes and in the 1920s, households occasionally reserved the name flapjack for a pancake made from some particular recipe.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

flapjack - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, hot cake, hotcake, pancake, griddlecake cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat buckwheat cake - a pancake made with buckwheat flour buttermilk pancake - a pancake made with buttermilk blini, bliny - Russian pancake of buckwheat flour and yeast; usually served with caviar and sour cream blintz, blintze - (Judaism) thin pancake folded around a filling and fried or baked crape, French pancake, crepe - small very thin pancake german pancake, pfannkuchen - puffy mildly sweet lemon-flavored egg mixture sprinkled with confectioners' sugar and served with jam or a wine or fruit sauce latke, potato pancake - made of grated potato and egg with a little flour tortilla - thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour

Translations

flapjack

[ˈflæpdʒæk] N (US) (= pancake) → torta f, panqueque m (LAm) (Brit) torta de avena

flapjack

[ˈflæpdʒæk] n

(US) (= pancake) → crêpe f épaisse

(British) (= biscuit) → galette f (à base d'avoine et de mélasse)

flapjack

n (US) → Pfannkuchen m; (Brit) → Haferkeks m

flapjack

[ˈflæpˌdʒæk] n (Brit) (biscuit) → biscotto di avena (Am) (pancake) → frittella