bannock

noun

ban·​nock ˈba-nək 

1

: a usually unleavened flat bread or biscuit made with oatmeal or barley meal

2

chiefly New England : corn bread

especially : a thin cake baked on a griddle

Examples of bannock in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Worth the trip: Feast Bistro, for bannock pizza or other wonderful First Nation dishes. March 22 – Washington Near the arena: SeoulSpice or Bindaas Bowls & Rolls for lunch amongst some other more famous, more expensive options en route to an afternoon stroll on the National Mall. —Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025

Then a storm rolled in and prevented the plane from flying, leaving us stranded on the river for an extra day and night with a few sausage ends and some bannock to sustain us. —Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 12 Aug. 2025

There might also be a chance to sample some local delicacies like bannock, Arctic char or caribou. —Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

Indeed, the newlyweds barely have time to butter each other’s bannocks before Ian — as well as his uncle — must join the Continental Army and prepare for battle. —Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 Dec. 2024

Common dishes include rosemary oat bannock, barley pies, fresh cheeses, pancakes, savory soups, scones, tarts, braided bread, cottage cheese cakes, crepes, milk punches and more. —Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 2024

The meal includes traditional homemade fish chowder, hot bannock, coffee, and tea – including a number of northern herbal teas. —Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Scots & northern English dialect, going back to Middle English (northern) bannoke "bread baked on the hearth," going back to Old English bannuc "a small piece (of bread)," of obscure origin

Note: The word is attested in Middle English only once, as bannoke, glossed by "focacius, panis subcinericius" ("hearth bread, bread [baked] under the ashes") in the Catholicon Anglicum, an English-Latin dictionary compiled in the second half of the fifteenth century, probably in Yorkshire. The Old English word likewise occurs only once, in the glosses to Aldheim's De laude virginitatis, where healfne bannuc glosses "dimidiam partem," a "half part" of a pastry or bread. The word apparently occurs in Scottish Gaelic, as bonnach, bannach, but is likely to have been borrowed from Scots. Breton bannacʼh "drop," adduced in the Dictionary of Old English, is from an etymon common to insular Celtic (as Old Irish bannae "drop") and unlikely to be of relevance.

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for bannock

• laennec
• manic
• panic
• stannic
• tannic
• aldermanic
• inorganic
• magellanic
• messianic
• oceanic
• pozzolanic
• talismanic