bannock
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: Bannock
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bannoke, from Old English bannuc, from Old Irish bannach, based on Latin pānicum (“millet”). Doublet of bonnag.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈbæ.nək/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)
- (especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
- 1894, Joseph Jacobs, “More English Fairy Tales”, in The Wee Bannock, D. Nutt:
- So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.
- (Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 8, in Klee Wyck[1]:
- “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.
- 2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 54:
- My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.
- (specifically) This or any similar traditional bread when made by indigenous Americans, originally from native sources such as maize or pseudocereals and plants with starchy roots
- Synonyms: Indian bread, alatiq, skaan
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Indigenous Canadian breads
|
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Old Irish
- English terms derived from Latin
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- Scottish English
- Northern England English
- English terms with quotations
- Canadian English
- en:Breads