- [countable] a thin flat round cake made from a mixture of flour, eggs and milk that is fried on both sides, usually eaten hot for breakfast in the US, and in the UK either as a dessert with sugar, jam, etc. or as a main course with meat, cheese, etc.
- pancakes with maple syrup
- a selection of savoury pancakes
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- blueberry
- chocolate-chip
- potato
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- cook
- make
- flip
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- batter
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- breakfast
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- [uncountable] thick make-up for the face, used especially in the theatre
Word Originlate Middle English: from the noun pan + cake.
Idioms
See pancake in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryas flat as a pancake
- completely flat
- The country around here is as flat as a pancake.
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- (as) blind as a bat
- (as) bright as a button
- (as) bold as brass
- as busy as a bee
- as clean as a whistle
- (as) dead as a/the dodo
- (as) deaf as a post
- (as) dull as ditchwater
- (as) fit as a fiddle
- as flat as a pancake
- (as) good as gold
- (as) mad as a hatter/a March hare
- (as) miserable/ugly as sin
- as old as the hills
- (as) pleased/proud as Punch
- as pretty as a picture
- (as) regular as clockwork
- (as) quick as a flash
- (as) safe as houses
- (as) sound as a bell
- (as) steady as a rock
- (as) thick as two short planks
- (as) tough as old boots
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