Meanings
plural johnny cakes
- AustraliaCanadaNew ZealandUSalternativecolloquialAlternative form of johnnycake (“type of basic cornbread”).
The women were good cooks. They used to cook bread, damper and johnny cake in bakers.
1987, Ida West, “Pride Against Prejudice”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 1081 more example
The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.
1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353
Synonyms & antonyms
nouncornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
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