pancake(n = noun.food) battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack, griddlecake, hot cake, hotcake - a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle;
is a kind of cake
has particulars: buckwheat cake, buttermilk pancake, blini, bliny, blintz, blintze, crape, crepe, french pancake, german pancake, pfannkuchen, latke, potato pancake, tortilla

   A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. Shak. [1913 Webster]

pancake, n. & v.
--n.
1 a thin flat cake of batter usu. fried and turned in a pan and rolled up with a filling.
2 a flat cake of make-up etc.
--v.
1 intr. make a pancake landing.
2 tr. cause (an aircraft) to pancake.

Idiom:
flat as a pancake completely flat. Pancake Day Shrove Tuesday (on which pancakes are traditionally eaten). pancake landing an emergency landing by an aircraft with its undercarriage still retracted, in which the pilot attempts to keep the aircraft in a horizontal position throughout.

Etymology:
ME f. PAN(1) + CAKE

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