flapjack

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

flap·jack [flapjack flapjacks] BrE [ˈflæpdʒæk] NAmE [ˈflæpdʒæk] noun
1. uncountable, countable (BrE)a thick soft biscuit made from ↑oats, butter, sugar and ↑syrup
2. countable (NAmE)a thick ↑pancake

Word Origin:
early 17th cent. (in sense 2): from ↑flap (in the dialect sense ‘toss a pancake’) + ↑jack; sense 1 dates from the 1930s and is probably a regional coinage.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pancake, battercake, flannel cake, flannel-cake, flapcake, griddlecake, hotcake, hot cake