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griddle

[ grid-l ]

noun

  1. a frying pan with a handle and a slightly raised edge, for cooking pancakes, bacon, etc., over direct heat.
  2. any flat, heated surface, especially on the top of a stove, for cooking food:

    a quick breakfast from the luncheonette's griddle.

  3. Upstate New York Older Use. a circular lid covering an opening on the cooking surface of a wood or coal-burning stove.


verb (used with object)

, grid·dled, grid·dling.
  1. to cook on a griddle:

    Griddle two eggs for me, will you?

griddle

/ ˈɡrɪdəl /

noun

  1. Also calledgirdle a thick round iron plate with a half hoop handle over the top, for making scones, etc
  2. any flat heated surface, esp on the top of a stove, for cooking food


verb

  1. tr to cook (food) on a griddle

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Word History and Origins

Origin of griddle1

1175–1225; Middle English gridel, gredil < Old French gridil, gredil; grill 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of griddle1

C13: from Old French gridil, from Late Latin crātīculum (unattested) fine wickerwork; see grill 1

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Example Sentences

Why the Philly cheesesteak gives us hope during a pandemicMy “real cheezy” burger was cooked well-done, which is fine for a smash burger, but it was also oddly bitter, as if the cooks had not scraped the griddle clean for days.

I wish that I could say that Gideon fell onto a griddle when she was 4 or some adorable baby backstory.

From Vox

Just mix up some stuff in a bowl, pour it on a hot griddle, and see if it, well, pancaked.

From Eater

They’re also great for shower tracks, griddles, stovetops—or any hard to navigate surface that needs a good scrub.

It’s topped off with a tough nonstick finish that’s also dishwasher safe, and the whole griddle can even go straight in the oven and endure temperatures of up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

It requires a finely honed sense of timing and a griddle that has been seasoned just right.

The last thing I always did before leaving Los Angeles was to have brunch at The Griddle.

After we finished breakfast at The Griddle, I dropped Mike off at his apartment.

Newt Gingrich was on the griddle for much of the evening, easily defending his ideas and deflecting criticism.

For each pancake, pour a generous dollop (up to 1/4 cup) on the skillet or griddle.

Dey aint no tellin' de chunes dey is in dat trivet, en in dat griddle, en in dat fryin'-pan er mine; dat dey aint.

Mrs. Miller makes the best muffins I ever tasted, and she had some ready mixed, and nothing to do but put them on the griddle.

So I said to my foster-mother, "Give me the third cake on the griddle until I go after my foster-sisters."

The cooking stove was in a little, cold, floorless shed, and there mother baked some corn griddle-cakes for our supper.

Hotter, more desolate than ever, lay that black griddle of the foreshore on which Angus Jones was now condemned to wander with me.

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