as in crêpe
a flat cake made from thin batter and cooked on both sides (as on a griddle) every Sunday morning, we have pancakes and bacon for breakfast

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Recent Examples of pancake One of the classics is the pancake cake, buttermilk pancake batter made into a cake, served by the slice and topped with honey butter. Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025 Qua’s menu will feature banquet-style sharing, with dishes like siu-mei roast meats, oyster pancakes, hủ tiếu noodles, and Hainanese chicken rice. Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025 The classic diner serves huge portions of affordable fare that tastes like your grandmother made it, including stacks of pancakes slathered in butter and maple syrup and omelets crammed with fresh ingredients. Nora Heston Tarte, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025 The free pancake offer is good for dine-in only; one order per guest. Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pancake
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Noun
  • That year, Dine Brands’ IHOP, for example, introduced pancakes with 18 grams of protein per flapjack.
    Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2025
  • The flapjacks surely wouldn’t hold up to my memory.
    Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Austinites snapped up these covers like hotcakes.
    Steve Sewall, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • If that’s not enough, order a single jumbo hotcake to really take you over the edge.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The blin is so ubiquitous in Russia that the word is also used as a mild expletive: a polite Russian might mutter it after stubbing her toe, in place of the curse word blyad.
    Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2017
Noun
  • Eye-catching edibles include Kraken’s Catch, a cold salad with octopus tentacles ($18), and cook’s corn griddle cakes ($12.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Members lamented the loss of their friend, as well as the delicious Salvadoran griddle cakes, called pupusas, that Ruano made.
    Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025

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“Pancake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pancake. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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