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    JOHNNY CAKE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)play

    Synonyms:

    johnny cake; johnnycake; journey cake

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("johnny cake" is a kind of...):

    cornbread (bread made primarily of cornmeal)

    Domain region:

    New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "johnny cake"):

    hoecake (thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern))

    Shawnee cake (form of johnnycake)

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