How do you use the word "pancake" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "pancake" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "pancake": Pancake! We're out of vermicelli! Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.

Pancake Meaning

/ˈpæn.keɪk/

Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:

nounA thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter; in particular:, In England, an often unleavened cake similar to a crepe.

Sentence Examples

Pancake! We're out of vermicelli!

Each pancake comes with a dollop of suspiciously soft butter in a tiny plastic cup.

What syrup did you drizzle on your pancake?

CEFR Practice Quiz

For breakfast, I cooked a thin, round ____ in a frying pan with butter.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

She flipped the ____ perfectly and served it with maple syrup and fresh berries for breakfast.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *pannǭ Proto-West Germanic *pannā Old English panne Middle English panne Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake Middle English panne cake English pancake Inherited from Middle English pancake, panne cake, pankake, ponkake. By surface analysis, pan + cake. Perhaps adapted from Middle Low German pankôke, pannekôke, from Old Saxon *pannakōko (suggested by derivatives Old Saxon pannakōkilo and pannakōkilīn), where the compound is much older; compare Old High German phankuohho (8th century), whence Middle High German phankuoche, German Pfannkuchen (“pancake”); further Saterland Frisian Ponkouke, Ponkuuke (“pancake”), West Frisian pankoek (“pancake”), Dutch pannenkoek (“pancake”), German Low German Pannkook (“pancake”). The juggling sense is by analogy with a pancake being tossed in a pan.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Mrs. America is holding a plate of pancakes in one hand and a fork with a slice of pancake in the other." — 2001, Alice A. Deck, ““Now Then—Who Said Biscuits?” The Black Woman Cook as Fetish in American Advertising, 1905–1953”, in Sherrie A. Inness, editor, Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 88:

"And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park." — 1984 April 14, Freddie Greenfield, “Spoiling the View”, in Gay Community News, page 19:

"have been working on pancake throws with rings for the past few months and I have been trying to make the throws perfectly spun and as consistent as possible." — 2004, Beinn Muir , “Ring juggling: pancake throws”, in rec.juggling (Usenet):

"Most of the electrons would pass through the hadron pancake with no interaction, but a few would collide […]" — 2004, William H. Cropper, Great Physicists:

"&hellip in the poorer grades the heel is made of scrap leather and leather board or pulp, finished with a solid leather top lift. The composite material, called pancake, is made by an operative, usually a girl, called a pancake-maker; it is used sometimes for soles as well as heels." — 1903, Davis Rich Dewey, Twelfth Census of the United States: Special report: Employees and Wages, page 1200:

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