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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

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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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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

The family scrounged a potato, sometimes, a bit of bannock.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

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

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

Then the runners of the Willamettes came to us through the snow, 138 saying, ‘Come and join the war-party that goes to fight the Bannocks.’

From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch

The Indian tribes in Idaho are the Nez Percés, the Boise and Bruneau Shoshones, and Bannocks, the Cœur d'Alênes, and Spokanes, with several other small bands, numbering in the aggregate about 5,800 souls.

From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker

Suddenly a keen-sighted warrior points to a dim speck far over the prairie toward the land of the Bannocks.

From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch

Bannocks are better nor nae kind o' bread.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

He had lived with the Crows and the Bannocks, it was true, but only as a friend and a man of peace, never as a warrior.

From Down the Yellowstone by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

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