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hoecake

noun

Meaning

  1. 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.

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  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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