bannock
/ˈbæ.nək/
bannock noun: an unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
Noun (1)
bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)
- An unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
- "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme
Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop,
And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend!
three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 353 - So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.1894, Joseph Jacobs, “More English Fairy Tales”, in The Wee Bannock, D. Nutt
- "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme
- A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
- “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 8, in Klee Wyck
- My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 54
- This or any similar traditional bread when made by indigenous Americans, originally from native sources such as maize or pseudocereals and plants with starchy roots
Noun (2) capitalized: Bannock
Bannock (plural Bannocks or Bannock)
- A member of a tribe of the Northern Paiute, an indigenous people of the Great Basin.
Synonyms of bannock
- Indian bread
- alatiq
- skaan
Forms of bannock
| plural | bannocks |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bannik |
| plural | Bannocks |
| plural | Bannock |
Origin of bannock
From Middle English bannoke, from Old English bannuc, perhaps from a Goidelic word (compare Irish bonnóg, Manx bonnag, Scottish Gaelic bonnach), possibly from Latin pānicum (“millet”). Doublet of bonnag.
Derived from Northern Paiute Pannakwatɨ (“Bannock”).
Words formed from bannock
- banakite
- Bannock County
- currant-bannock
- bannock puncher
Questions about bannock
- What does bannock mean?
- Bannock means an unleavened bread, usually made with barleymeal, wheatmeal, or oatmeal; sometimes of peasemeal or otherwise.
- What part of speech is bannock?
- Bannock is a noun.
- How do you pronounce bannock?
- Bannock is pronounced /ˈbæ.nək/.
- What is the plural of bannock?
- The plural of bannock is bannocks.
Words near bannock in the dictionary
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