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pikelet

/ˈpaɪklət/

pikelet noun: a thick type of sweet pancake.

Noun

pikelet (plural pikelets)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A thick type of sweet pancake.
    • To cook the pikelets, heat a non-stick skillet and oil lightly, then pour the Pikelet Mixture into 6 oiled egg rings. Cook over moderate heat until bubbles start to appear in the batter, then flip the pikelets over and cook the other side, removing the egg rings as you do so.2005, Christine Manfield, Charlie Trotter (foreword), Spice: Recipes to Delight the Senses, Penguin Group Australia, republished 2008, Periplus, Singapore, page 140
    • By soaking the batter overnight the grain is broken down, which results in a softer and more digestible pancake or pikelet.
      When made with wholemeal flours and low levels of fat, pikelets and pancakes are much denser than traditional ones.2006, Jude Blereau, Wholefood: Heal... Nourish... Delight, Murdoch Books, Australia, page 62
  2. (UK) A thin crumpet.
  3. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal, Black Country, Birmingham) Any crumpet, regardless of thickness

pikelet meaning in Tamil

pikelet in Tamil

நன்னீர் மீன்வகை

Synonyms of pikelet

Forms of pikelet

pluralpikelets

Origin of pikelet

Derived from Welsh bara pyglyd (“pitchy [i.e. dark or sticky] bread”), later shortened simply to pyglyd. The early 17th century lexicographer, Randle Cotgrave, spoke of "our Welsh barrapycleds". The word spread to the West Midlands of England, where it was anglicised to picklets and then to pikelets.

Questions about pikelet

What does pikelet mean?
Pikelet means a thick type of sweet pancake.
What is pikelet in Tamil?
Pikelet in Tamil is நன்னீர் மீன்வகை. See Pikelet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pikelet?
Pikelet is a noun.
How do you pronounce pikelet?
Pikelet is pronounced /ˈpaɪklət/.
What is the plural of pikelet?
The plural of pikelet is pikelets.

Words near pikelet in the dictionary

  1. piked
  2. pikeguard
  3. pikeguards
  4. pikehead
  5. pikeheads
  6. pikelet
  7. pikelets
  8. pikelike
  9. pikelin
  10. pikelins
  11. pikeman

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pikelet (page history and authors); pikelet (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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