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JOURNEY CAKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does journey cake mean?
• JOURNEY CAKE (noun)
The noun JOURNEY CAKE has 1 sense:
1. cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
Familiarity information: JOURNEY CAKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("journey cake" 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 "journey cake"):
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)
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