Word Meanings - GRIDDLECAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A cake baked or fried on a griddle, esp. a thin batter cake, as of buckwheat or common flour.
Related words: (words related to GRIDDLECAKE)
- FRIVOL
To act frivolously; to trifle. Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er , Friv"ol*ler, n. - FRICATRICE
A lewd woman; a harlot. B. Jonson. - FRIENDLINESS
The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney. - FRIENDED
1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak. - FRIZZLER
One who frizzles. - FLOURY
Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens. - FRIVOLISM
Frivolity. Pristley. - FRIBBLE
Frivolous; trifling; sily. - BAKING
1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little - COMMONER
1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground. - FRIEZED
Gathered, or having the map gathered, into little tufts, knots, or protuberances. Cf. Frieze, v. t., and Friz, v. t., - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - FRIESISH
Friesic. - FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women. - GRIDDLE
W. greidell, Ir. greideal, greideil, griddle, gridiron, greadaim I 1. An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes. 2. A sieve with a wire bottom, used by miners. - FRINGY
Aborned with fringes. Shak. - BATTERING-RAM
1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so - FRICATION
Friction. Bacon. - COMMONISH
Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar. - FRINGENT
Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson. - DEFLOURER
One who deflours; a ravisher. - BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
See BURNER - UNCOMMON
Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n. - UNFRIEND
One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - INTERCOMMON
To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon. - AFRICANISM
A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.