- pancake (n.)
[pancake 词源字典]
- early 15c. (late 13c. as a surname), from pan (n.) + cake (n.); as symbol of flatness c. 1600.[pancake etymology, pancake origin, 英语词源]
- pancake (v.)
- "to squeeze flat," 1879, from pancake (n.). Later, of aircraft, "to fall flat" (1911), with figurative extension. Related: Pancaked; pancaking.