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journeycake

journeycake is the alternative form of johnnycake.

Meaning of johnnycake

Noun

johnnycake (plural johnnycakes)

  1. (US) A dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.
    • So he went away on his journey; and after he had travelled a far way, he met with an old woman that asked him if he would give her a bit of his johnny-cake.1890, Joseph Jacobs, “The Red Ettin”, in English Fairy Tales, page 135
    Synonyms:
    ashcake, battercake, New England cornbread, corncake, cornpone, hoecake, journeycake, mushbread, pone, Shawneecake

Forms of journeycake

pluraljourneycakes

Questions about journeycake

What is journeycake the alternative form of?
Journeycake is the alternative form of johnnycake.

Words near journeycake in the dictionary

  1. journaux
  2. Journee
  3. journey
  4. Journey into Space
  5. journey juice
  6. journeycake
  7. journeycakes
  8. journeyed
  9. journeyer
  10. journeyers
  11. journeyest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: journeycake (page history and authors); johnnycake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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