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Definition of Hot cake
1. Noun. A flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle.
Generic synonyms: Cake
Specialized synonyms: Buckwheat Cake, Buttermilk Pancake, Blini, Bliny, Blintz, Blintze, Crape, Crepe, French Pancake, German Pancake, Pfannkuchen, Latke, Potato Pancake, Tortilla
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hot Cake
Literary usage of Hot cake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. He Knew He was Right by Anthony Trollope (1869)
"All this was very pleasant, and Miss Stanbury was so happy dispensing her tea,
and the hot cake, and the clotted cream, and was so intent upon her little ..."
2. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse (1896)
"And to the same lady he said: "There is something in a live letter, just from
the mail, like a hot cake just from the griddle. A book can give much, ..."
3. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse (1896)
"A book can give much, but the hot cake and warm letter have a charm all their own."
In fact, though he said that he had "written a very large number of ..."
4. School Reading by Grades: First[-eighth] Year by James Baldwin (1897)
"... that on the coals there was a griddle, and on the griddle there was a nice,
hot cake. ... took the nice, hot cake. " Thank you, kind fire ! " she said. ..."
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