Etymology

griddlecake

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Today it means: Any of various forms of small pancake made from a spoonful of batter cooked on a griddle. Full definition →

English cake ← Middle English cake ← Old Norse kaka
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The story

  1. Englishgriddle
  2. Proto-Germanic*kakǭ
  3. Old Norsekaka
  4. Middle Englishcake
  5. Englishcake
  6. English todaygriddlecake

From griddle + cake.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.