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• bannock
  bannock

  noun

  a flat cake made of oatmeal, barley meal, etc., usually baked on a griddle.
• Bannock
  Bannock

  noun

  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.

bannock

¹ American  

[ban-uhk] / ˈbæn ək /

noun

Scottish and British Cooking.

1. a flat cake made of oatmeal, barley meal, etc., usually baked on a griddle.

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Bannock ² American  

[ban-uhk] / ˈbæn ək /

noun

• Bannocks,
  plural
• Bannock
  plural

1. 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.

2. the language of the Bannock, belonging to the Shoshonean group of Uto-Aztecan languages.

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bannock British  

/ ˈbænək /

noun

1. a round flat unsweetened cake originating in Scotland, made from oatmeal or barley and baked on a griddle

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Bannock
  plural
• Bannocks
  plural

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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Your selections include smoked salmon panini, venison chili, xuxem berry tea, dessert bars and bannock doughnuts.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2022

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

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

Valenti claimed in her blog post that the Bannock County prosecutor used “the exact language of the trafficking law” in the kidnapping charges against the Swainstons.

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

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

But when I turned around, I realized that unless the Bannock Police Department hired hundred-year-old officers who got around with walkers, we were pretty safe.

From "Winger" by Andrew Smith

“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 Balch, Frederic Homer

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 Balch, Frederic Homer

It is noteworthy that contemporary Fort Hall informants still speak of the Oregon Paiute as Bannocks.

From Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society by Murphy, Robert F.

Bannocks o' bear meal, Cakes, barley Bannocks o' barley; Here's to the Highlandman's Bannocks o' barley.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

“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 Lunt, George