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Definition pancake

Etymology

From Middle English pancake, equivalent to pan +‎ cake. The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

Compare Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”), German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”).

Noun

pancake (plural pancakes)

1. A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.
2. (theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.
3. (juggling) A type of throw, usually with a ring where the prop is thrown in such a way that it rotates round an axis of the diameter of the prop.
4. Anything very thin and flat.

Verb

pancake (third-person singular simple present pancakes, present participle pancaking, simple past and past participle pancaked)

1. (intransitive) To make a pancake landing.
2. (construction, demolition) To collapse one floor after another.
3. (transitive) To flatten violently.

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