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hoecakes

hoecakes is the plural of hoecake.

Meaning of hoecake

Noun

hoecake (plural hoecakes)

  1. (Southern US, dated) A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
    • In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.

Questions about hoecakes

What is hoecakes the plural of?
Hoecakes is the plural of hoecake.

Words near hoecakes in the dictionary

  1. hoe-farming
  2. Hoeata
  3. hoebag
  4. hoebags
  5. hoecake
  6. hoecakes
  7. Hoeck
  8. Hoecker
  9. Hoecks
  10. hoed
  11. hoed around

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