buckwheat cake

noun

1. a pancake made of buckwheat flour.

Word History and Origins

Origin of buckwheat cake¹

An Americanism dating back to 1740–50

Example Sentences

A piece of bread with a buckwheat cake, if only it can be procured, is a very good dinner indeed.

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Cap helped herself to a buckwheat cake and daintily buttered it.

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It should be about the consistence of buckwheat cake or muffin batter.

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It is to have a buckwheat cake made large enough to cover the bed-quilt, and spread over it "piping hot" at the time of retiring.

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