flap-jacky

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1. alternativeAlternative form of flapjacky.

   “Thin French pan cakes for dessert. These are thin and flap-jacky and were served rolled up, in sauce.[…]”

   1928 November 6, S. A. Tucker, “As I View the Thing”, in Decatur Evening Herald, 47th year, Decatur, Ill., page 10, column 3

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   Senator Johnson, who first made a name as the author of “Cuddy Flour” four years ago, is out in the Citizen with a new version calculated to tickle the difident^([sic]) muse out of retirement to look with flap-jacky eye on the new brand, made of Indian valley wheat by the roller process.

   1893 September 21, The Weiser Signal, volume III, number 41, Weiser, Ida.: R. E. Lockwood, page [3], column 2

   He talked about a certain faction of Democrats who had a steam roller, and, if the contest man senses the thing just right, it was running over some folks right here in Raleigh who refuse to assume the form of a dejected flapjack without making some complaint of it. That’s all right. Don’t be one of those flap-jacky sort of citizens! Just go about your business quietly—and do things.

   1909 March 27, “Ride in an Auto or Be a Flapjack: The Human Yeast Cakes Are the Ones Who Rise These Occasions, And They Will Reap the Reward of Effort Judicionsly^([sic]) Expended in This Great $10,000 Contest; […]”, in The News and Observer, volume LXXXVII, number 113, Raleigh, N.C., page 1, column 7

   Seldom are we served such delicate Mandarin pancakes. You wouldn’t believe the thick flap-jacky ones they produce at some places.

   1996 September 20, Jennie Douglas, “Canton Low a high point for Chinese food”, in The News-Pilot, San Pedro, Calif.: The Copley Press Inc., page K36, column 5