flapjack
noun/ˈflæpdʒæk/
/ˈflæpdʒæk/
- [uncountable, countable] (British English) a thick soft biscuit made from oats, butter, sugar and syrupTopics Foodc2
- [countable] (North American English) a thick pancake
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in sense (2)): from flap (in the dialect sense ‘toss a pancake’) + jack; sense 1 dates from the 1930s and is probably a regional coinage.
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