Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a pancake.

Etymologies

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pancake +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Toad-in-the-hole is so dubbed because some comedian, squinting at a casserole of sausages covered in the same pancakelike batter as is used for popovers, thought it resembled a gang of toads sticking their little heads out of a hole.

    SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010

  • Toad-in-the-hole is so dubbed because some comedian, squinting at a casserole of sausages covered in the same pancakelike batter as is used for popovers, thought it resembled a gang of toads sticking their little heads out of a hole.

    SARA MOULTON’S EVERYDAY FAMILY DINNERS SARA MOULTON 2010

  • The girls up on the poles, their bodies sprayed with glitter, their faces pancakelike with foundation, became smoke-wreathed animations whose names he had never known, whose lives had nothing to do with his own, even though every one of them courted his favor and always called him Nick in the same tone they would use when addressing a protective uncle.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • The girls up on the poles, their bodies sprayed with glitter, their faces pancakelike with foundation, became smoke-wreathed animations whose names he had never known, whose lives had nothing to do with his own, even though every one of them courted his favor and always called him Nick in the same tone they would use when addressing a protective uncle.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • The girls up on the poles, their bodies sprayed with glitter, their faces pancakelike with foundation, became smoke-wreathed animations whose names he had never known, whose lives had nothing to do with his own, even though every one of them courted his favor and always called him Nick in the same tone they would use when addressing a protective uncle.

    Rain Gods James Lee Burke 2009

  • There were side dishes of hardboiled eggs with salt and cumin, and pancakelike breads.

    A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007

  • There were side dishes of hardboiled eggs with salt and cumin, and pancakelike breads.

    A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007

  • There were side dishes of hardboiled eggs with salt and cumin, and pancakelike breads.

    A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007

  • There were side dishes of hardboiled eggs with salt and cumin, and pancakelike breads.

    A House in Fez SUZANNA CLARKE 2007

  • When he let go the pancakelike algae flopped back down onto the ice.

    Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984

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