hoecake

n. 锄头玉米饼

词形变化

hoecakes 复数 hoecakes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.

    过时

    In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

johnnycake journeycake

部分词 2

cornmeal Indian meal

词源

From hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).

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