griddle

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The sizzle and pop sounds of bacon cooking on a griddle is an excellent way to greet the morning, and we don't even feel bad about licking the grease from our fingers before we wash it all down with a steaming cup of coffee.

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  1. noun A flat metal surface, such as a pan, that is used for cooking by dry heat.
  2. noun Vermont & Upstate New York See eye.
  3. transitive verb To cook on a flat metal surface.

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  1. Middle English gridel, gridiron, from Old North French gredil, from Latin crātīcula, diminutive of crātis, wickerwork hurdle, lattice.

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  1. North. English and Scots transposed girdle; from Middle English gridel, gridele, gredil, gredel, a griddle, a gridiron (appearing also in the accommodation forms gridire, gredire, grydyrne, gredirne, etc., English gridiron, q. v.), from Welsh gredyll, greidell, gradell, OW. gratell, a griddle, a grate, = Irish greideil, greideal, a griddle, gridiron, = Old French graïlle, graille, grele, French grille, feminine, a grate, a grating; cf. Old French graïl, masculine, French gril, masculine (later English grill), a gridiron, = Italian gradella, a fish-basket, hurdle, from Latin craticula, feminine, Middle Latin sometimes graticula, feminine, and craticulus, masculine, a gridiron, diminutive of cratis, a hurdle, wickerwork: see grill, gridiron (doublets of griddle), grate, crate, hurdle. The Celtic forms are from the L., but appear to be accommodation to W. greidio, scorch, singe, Irish greadaim, I scorch, parch, burn, Gaelic gread, scorch, burn. The Sw. grädda, bake, is perhaps of Celtic origin.
 

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