hotcake

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English

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Etymology

From hot +‎ cake.

Noun

hotcake (plural hotcakes)

  1. (Canada, US) A pancake.
    For breakfast he ordered a stack of hotcakes with butter and syrup.
  2. Something that sells quickly in large volumes.
    • 1977 April 9, David Holland, “People, Places, and Flings”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
      Monsieur Kopay's account of coming-out in the locker room has returned to the printers for a third run. That little hotcake is coming out of Arbor house at a selling rate of 650 copies per day.

Descendants

  • Alutiiq: haatkiik
  • Cantonese: 克戟 (hak1 kik1)
  • Cebuano: hatkeyk
  • Japanese: ホットケーキ (hottokēki)
  • Spanish: hotcake

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Spanish

Noun

hotcake m (plural hotcakes)

  1. hotcake