JOHNNYCAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does johnnycake mean? 

• JOHNNYCAKE (noun)
  The noun JOHNNYCAKE has 1 sense:

1. cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)

  Familiarity information: JOHNNYCAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOHNNYCAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

johnny cake; johnnycake; journey cake

Hypernyms ("johnnycake" is a kind of...):

cornbread (bread made primarily of cornmeal)

Domain region:

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "johnnycake"):

hoecake (thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern))

Shawnee cake (form of johnnycake)