flannel cake

Questions about flannel cake

What does flannel cake mean?

flannel cake means "a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle".

What is another word for flannel cake?

Close synonyms include pancake, battercake, flannel-cake, flapcake, flapjack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flannel cake a common word?

flannel cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.