hotcake
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
hotcake (plural hotcakes)
- (Canada, US) A pancake.
- For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
- Something that sells quickly in large volumes.
- 1977 April 9, David Holland, “People, Places, and Flings”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
- Monsieur Kopay's account of coming-out in the locker room has returned to the printers for a third run. That little hotcake is coming out of Arbor house at a selling rate of 650 copies per day.
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Alutiiq: haatkiik
- → Cantonese: 克戟 (hak1 kik1)
- → Cebuano: hatkeyk
- → Japanese: ホットケーキ (hottokēki)
- → Spanish: hotcake
Translations edit
pancake — see pancake
Further reading edit
- “hot cake”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Spanish edit
Noun edit
hotcake m (plural hotcakes)