bannock
noun
a flat cake made of oatmeal, barley meal, etc., usually baked on a griddle.
bannock
1 American
[ban-uhk]
/ ˈbæn ək /
noun
Scottish and British Cooking.
Bannock
2
American
[ban-uhk]
/ ˈbæn ək /
noun
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Bannocks,
plural
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Bannock
plural
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly of Idaho and Wyoming who merged with the Shoshone in the 19th century, now living primarily in southeastern Idaho.
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the language of the Bannock, belonging to the Shoshonean group of Uto-Aztecan languages.
bannock
British
/ ˈbænək /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bannock
before 1000; Middle English bannok, Old English bannuc morsel < British Celtic; compare Scots Gaelic bannach
Example Sentences
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We will keep going back for the bannock tacos and the chance to eat in the Isken Hall, with windows all around overlooking the Lost Lake woods.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
Your selections include smoked salmon panini, venison chili, xuxem berry tea, dessert bars and bannock doughnuts.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022
My characters take it for granted that their roads are made of biodegradable foam, 3-D printers spit out biological tissue, trucks drive themselves, and there’s a popular chain of bannock cafés in northern Canada.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2017
She makes bannock, a traditional round-shaped fry bread that’s eaten plain or with spreadable treats such as dips, hummus, jellies or jam.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2015
Downstairs, I find Taryn at the banquet table, alone, nursing a cup of nettle tea and picking at a bannock.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The key voting jurisdictions in the 2nd District are Bonneville, Twin Falls and Bannock counties and the swath of Ada County that includes Boise.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
They found signs of Shoshone, Bannock, Crow and other Indigenous camps in every part of the basin.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
He will not have to serve any more jail time after spending a year at the Bannock County Jail prior to his release in December.
From Fox News ● Jan. 5, 2022
The U.S. military created the nation’s first national park, Yellowstone, by forcibly removing Nez Perce, Bannock, Shoshone, Crow, and Blackfeet communities from their ancestral lands.
From Slate ● May 11, 2021
What he really said was something like, “I live in Bannock on Battle Point Lane. It’s about two miles from here.”
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
Jack reported Indians near by—indeed saw them: guessed them to be Bannocks, as Crows would have come in to beg.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
Bannocks o' bear meal, Bannocks o' barley; Here's to the lads wi' The bannocks o' barley; Wha in his wae-days woful- Were loyal to Charlie?
From Robert Burns How To Know Him by William Allan Neilson
The disappointment of the Bannocks was very great, and their comprehension of causes very slow.
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
It danced and sparkled past pretty nooks and shaded ravines among the hills, but issued from the gateway, like the far-famed Stinking River of the Bannocks and Shoshones of Northwestern Wyoming, a metamorphosed stream.
From A Trooper Galahad by Charles King
In 1877 he led the expedition against the Nez Perces Indians and in 1878 against the Bannocks and Piutes.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
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