Word Meanings - GRIDDLECAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.

Related words: (words related to GRIDDLECAKE)

• FRIVOL
  To act frivolously; to trifle. Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er , Friv"ol*ler, n.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRICATRICE
  A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• FRIZZLER
  One who frizzles.
• FLOURY
  Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.
• FRIVOLISM
  Frivolity. Pristley.
• FRIBBLE
  Frivolous; trifling; sily.
• BAKING
  1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• FRIEZED
  Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t.,
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• FRIESISH
  Friesic.
• FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
  a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.
• GRIDDLE
  W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners.
• FRINGY
  Aborned with fringes. Shak.
• BATTERING-RAM
  1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so
• FRICATION
  Friction. Bacon.
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• AFRICANISM
  A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.