hot cake

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hot keyk]
- /hɒt keɪk/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [hot keyk]
- /hɒt keɪk/

Definitions of hot cake words

noun hot cake a pancake or griddlecake. 1
idioms hot cake sell / go like hot cakes, to be disposed of very quickly and effortlessly, especially in quantity: His record sold like hot cakes on the first day after its release. 1
noun hot cake pancake 0

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Origin of hot cake

First appearance:

before 1675

One of the 48% oldest English words

An Americanism dating back to 1675-85

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Parts of speech for Hot cake

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Hot cake

hot cake popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 36% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data about 73% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.

hot cake usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for hot cake

noun hot cake

flapjack — a pancake or griddlecake.
battercake — pancake (def 1).
flannel cake — griddlecake; pancake.
griddlecake — a thin cake of batter cooked on a griddle; pancake.
pancake — a thin, flat cake of batter fried on both sides on a griddle or in a frying pan; griddlecake or flapjack.

All 5 Synonyms of hot cake