bannock
noun
a flat cake made of oatmeal, barley meal, etc., usually baked on a griddle.
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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
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Etymology
Origin of bannock
before 1000; Middle English bannok, Old English bannuc morsel < British Celtic; compare Scots Gaelic bannach
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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
They found signs of Shoshone, Bannock, Crow and other Indigenous camps in every part of the basin.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
In light of the affidavit’s findings, Blackfoot Mayor Marc Carroll and the Shoshone Bannock Tribe have called for Rowland’s resignation and a public apology.
From Fox News ● Dec. 19, 2021
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
“I am telling you, I was in the total dark,” said Lorin Nielsen, the longtime sheriff of Bannock county, whose team of detectives responded to the Mansfield poisoning.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2020
Joey started the car and we drove into Bannock.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
The men formed a kind of rear-guard, protecting the migrating tribe from any sudden assault on the part of the Bannocks.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
“The Bannocks sent back the peace-pipe by this man, and he broke it and cast the pieces in our teeth,” answered one, stubbornly.
From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch
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
The Crows is out, the Cheyennes is marchin', the Bannocks is east o' the Pass, an' ye kain't tell when ter expeck the Blackfoots an' Grow Vaws.
From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough
She sang "Sir John Cope" with irresistible raillery, and roused every Scotch feeling in her audience with "Bannocks o' Barley Meal," and "The Kail Brose of Auld Scotland."
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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