pancake

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   And us, me wearing pancake with my eyebrows recently plucked archly, done by Little Amber, the beauty-school student quean, in Bryant Park.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Anything very thin and flat.

   pancake lens

4. 4
   noun

   Composite leather made of scraps, glue and board, by extension of (4), material originally used for insoles, but later used also for heels and even soles.

   &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.

5. 5
   noun

   An attractive young woman.

   Damon Runyon, The Brakeman's Daughter 'To tell the truth,' The Humming Bird says, 'I neglect these details, because,' he says, 'I am already dated up to go out with Big False Face to-night to call on a doll who is daffy to meet me. Otherwise,' he says, 'I will undoubtedly make arrangements to see more of this pancake I just save from rack and ruin.'

6. 6
   verb

   To flatten violently.

   Poor old Sleepy suffered from an on-duty head injury he'd got by chasing a Corvette on a police motorcycle, ending up like a pancaked roadkill with half his scalp flapping in the backwash of freeway commuters[…]

7. 7
   noun

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

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

Etymology tree Pre-Greekder.? Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē)bor. Latin patina Late Latin pannabor. 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…