pancake Syllabification: (pan·cake)Pronunciation: /ˈpanˌkāk/Translate pancake | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of pancake noun a thin, flat cake of batter, usually fried and turned in a pan. Pancakes are usually eaten with syrup or rolled up with a filling. (also pancake makeup) makeup consisting of a flat solid layer of compressed powder, widely used in the theater. verb 1with reference to an aircraft) make or cause to make a pancake landing: [with object]he pancaked it in about twenty meters 2 informal flatten or become flattened: [no object]:the hotel had pancaked into a heap of concretePhrases (as) flat as a pancake completely flat. Origin: late Middle English: from pan1 + cakepancake in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of pancake in the British & World English dictionary
