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
Dinner found Isaac straining to make conversation over spaghetti and bannock while our guests glared at each other and watched the windows.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
In the statement provided to the Statesman, Bannock County Deputy Prosecutor Erin Tognetti said it’s typical to provide “a brief description of where they took the minor to provide adequate notice to the defendant.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2023
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
There was a big drainage culvert halfway between O-Hall and the highway to Bannock.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
The Shoshonees and Bannocks are the only nations which, to my knowledge hunt together over the same ground.
From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Robert F. Murphy
From here the Bannocks guided them onward, by train and by wagon, until at last they reached the country of the Fish-eaters, or Pai-Utes, at Pyramid Lake in western Nevada!
From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin
“Lud-a-massy!” screamed Sally Bannocks, on the verge of hysterics,—and some of the rest of us were not far from that condition.
From Old New England Traits by George Lunt
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
Then the Bannock said that he wanted to see the Cayuse chief, Snoqualmie, in the council-lodge, for the chief of the Bannocks had sent a “talk” to the Cayuses.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
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