griddle

English

Pancakes on a griddle

An electric griddle

Etymology

From Middle English gridil, from Anglo-Norman gredil, variant of Old French greil, from Latin crāticulum, diminutive of crātis. Doublet of grill (“grid of wire”), from the same Old French and Latin sources.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹɪdəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪdəl

Noun

griddle (plural griddles)

1. A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.
   • 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “chapter 5”, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

     Such a clatter as the little spoon made, and such a beating as the batter got, it quite foamed, I assure you; and when Daisy poured some on to the griddle, it rose like magic into a puffy flapjack that made Demi's mouth water.

   • 1894, Lance Rawson, “Australian enquiry book of household and general information”, in Cookery:

     Some people when making scones do not trouble to light the oven but use the frying pan: of course if you have a griddle it is better than oven or pan, but very few people possess this useful utensil.

Derived terms

• antigriddle
• griddle cake
• griddlecake
• like a hen on a hot griddle

 

Related terms

• grid
• gridiron

 

Translations

flat plate for cooking

• Bulgarian: готварска плоча f (gotvarska ploča)
• Czech: plotna f, plotýnka f, plech na pečení, lívanečník (cs) m
• Dutch: bakplaat (nl)
• Haitian Creole: platin
• Irish: grideall f
• Japanese: 鉄板 (ja) (teppan)
• Latvian: cepešpanna f
• Maori: pāraharaha
• Middle English: gridil
• Navajo: bikááʼatʼeesí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: takke (no) m

  Nynorsk: takka f

• Persian: بریجن (fa) (berijan)
• Portuguese: chapa (pt) f

Verb

griddle (third-person singular simple present griddles, present participle griddling, simple past and past participle griddled)

1. (transitive) To cook on a griddle.

Anagrams

• girdled, gridled