hotcake

English

Alternative forms

• hot cake

Etymology

hot +‎ cake

Noun

hotcake (plural hotcakes)

1. (Canada, US) A pancake.

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

2. 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

• like hot cakes
• sell like hot cakes

Descendants

• → Alutiiq: haatkiik
• → Cantonese: 克戟 (hak¹ kik¹)
• → Cebuano: hatkeyk
• → Japanese: ホットケーキ (hottokēki)
• → Spanish: hotcake

Translations

pancake — see pancake

Further reading

• “hot cake”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Spanish

Noun

hotcake m (plural hotcakes)

1. hotcake