scotch pancake

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   a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle

   Synonymsdrop sconegriddlecake

   Broaderscone

Questions about scotch pancake

What does scotch pancake mean?

scotch pancake means "a scone made by dropping a spoonful of batter on a griddle".

What is another word for scotch pancake?

Close synonyms include drop scone, griddlecake. 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 scotch pancake a common word?

scotch pancake 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.