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

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

In a small jar, vigorously mix the egg yolk with 1 tablespoon of cream, then brush the mixture over the top of the bannock. —Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 26 Jan. 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

Hot beverages and bannock are served at the end of the tour. —Debbie Olsen, Travel + Leisure, 18 Sep. 2023

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

Also worth a visit, Whiskeyjack Art House, run by Cree artist Lana Whiskeyjack, hosts rotating exhibitions by contemporary artists and has an excellent small gift store selling bannock mix, jams, and other food items by Indigenous catering company Pei Pei Chei Ow. —Karen Gardiner, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Dec. 2021

Every dish has an Indigenous twist, from the bannock buns on the burgers to the homemade Saskatoon berry vinaigrette served with the salad. —Debbie Olsen, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2022

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