A pancake. 1600: now dial. and U.S. (N.E.D.)
1789.
Dainties of all sorts, too, are here, | |
Enough to fill our stays and knapsacks, | |
Cream, cake, and cheese, delicious cheer, | |
Pies, custards, cranbry tarts, and flapjacks. | |
Mass. Spy, March 5. |
1826. The planet [in my dream] rolled over my carcase, and left it a slap-jack.Boston Monthly Mag., July.
1827. [With the Yankee] fritters are pancakes, and pancakes are flapjacks.Mass. Spy, Nov. 28: from the Berkshire American.
1854. [I] can give you mush, souse, slap-jacks, briled pork, continued Bulliphant.H. H. Riley, Puddleford, p. 147 (N.Y.).