Hotcake vs. Pancake

Hotcake vs. Pancake — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Hotcake and Pancake

Hotcakenoun

See pancake.

Pancakenoun

A thin cake made of batter that is poured onto a hot greased surface and cooked on both sides until brown. Also called flannel cake, flapjack, griddle cake, hotcake; also called regionally battercake.

Hotcakenoun

A pancake.

For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.

Pancakeverb

To cause (an aircraft) to make a pancake landing.

Hotcakenoun

a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle

Pancakeverb

To make a pancake landing.

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Pancakeverb

To fall flat to the ground with great force, especially to collapse in such a way that higher floors or structures fall directly on the ones beneath.

Pancakenoun

A thin batter cake fried in a pan or on a griddle in oil or butter.

Pancakenoun

(theater) A kind of makeup, consisting of a thick layer of a compressed powder.

Pancakenoun

(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.

Pancakeverb

(intransitive) To make a pancake landing.

Pancakeverb

To collapse one floor after another.

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Pancakeverb

(transitive) To flatten violently.

Pancakenoun

a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle