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corn cake

[ kawrn keyk ]

noun

  1. Midland and Southern U.S. a flat cornbread baked in a cast-iron skillet or griddle.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of corn cake1

An Americanism dating back to 1785–95

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Example Sentences

And Billy started on briskly, as if he knew well what supper meant, and thought he should have a share of corn-cake too.

She was sitting on a stool before the fire, cooking her scanty breakfast of corn-cake.

"Watch me knock it away over the tree," and land sakes, goodness me and a pop-corn cake!

Fortunately they had left some fruit and a piece of corn-cake, which had slipped out of one of their baskets.

Ours was composed of a corn cake, weighing about three-quarters of a pound, to each person, with as much water as was desired.

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