flapjack
(ˈflæpdʒæk)
[f. flap v. (sense 4 a) + jack.]
1. a. A flat cake, a pan-cake. b. An apple turnover or flat tart, an ‘apple-jack’.
| c 1600 Day Begg. Bednall Gr. v. (1881) 114 My Mother..could have taught thee how to a made butters and flap⁓jacks. 1620 Taylor (Water-P.) Jack-a-Lent B ij, A Flap⁓iack, which in our translation is call'd a Pancake. 1641 Brome Joviall Crew ii. Wks. 1873 III. 376 Flapiacks, and Pan-puddings. 1825 J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 272 Like a flap-jack in a fryin' pan. 1842 Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1883) 303 We had a splendid breakfast of flapjacks, or slapjacks, and whortleberries. 1871 M. A. Barker Christmas Cake in Four Quarters 294 We told Munro we'd have his flap-jacks for second course. 1945 A. P. Harper Camping & Bushcraft in N.Z. i. 21 To make a flap-jack, mix some flour and baking powder into a thick paste. |
| Comb. 1872 C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. vii. 135 Longhurst came upon the boards as a flapjack-frier. |
c. A biscuit
usu. containing rolled oats, syrup, etc. (Not known to some correspondents in S. England.)
| 1935 M. Struan Pop. Home Cookery 234 Date Flap⁓jacks... Cream the butter and sugar and when they are soft work in the rolled oats. Press half the mixture in a well-buttered tin, and spread with the dates. 1942 Radiation Cookery Bk. (ed. 24) 149 Flap Jacks. Ingredients. 6 oz. butter or margarine. 8 oz. rolled oats. 6 oz. Demerara sugar. Pinch of salt. 1950 Good Housek. Tea-Time Fare 34 Syrup Flapjack... Melt the margarine, sugar and syrup together, add the rolled oats..and bake it in a moderately hot oven. When the flapjack is golden-brown, remove it from oven. 1962 Guardian 17 Nov. 12/6 A proper recipe for genuine oats-and-treacle flapjacks. |
2. a. A kind of hydraulic machine (see
quot. 1842).
b. dial. The lapwing.
| 1842 Taylor in Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng. II. 102 For low falls [of water] there were many machines..for instance..the old ‘flap-jack’, with a reservoir of water at one end of a beam and a pump at the other. 1847 Halliwell, Flap-jack, the lapwing. Suffolk. |
3. A vanity case for face-powder.
| 1934 Punch 16 May 553/3 A flapjack with a powder⁓puff Might well be indiscreet [as a present]. 1941 S. Gibbons Rich House vii. 75 Slowly opening her handbag and taking out her flapjack. |