slapjack
(ˈslæpdʒæk)
Also slap-jack, slap jack.
[f. slap v. + Jack n.1]
1. N. Amer. A griddle-cake. Cf. flapjack 1.
| 1805 ‘An American Lady’ New Amer. Cookery 60 Indian Slapjack. One quart milk, 1 pint of Indian meal, 4 eggs, 4 spoons of flour. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. (1865) 438 Dainty slapjacks, well buttered, and garnished with honey or treacle. 1836 Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 97 A dish of real Connecticut Slap Jacks, or Hominy. 1867 J. K. Lord At Home in Wilderness viii. 132 Then I can bake bread in my frying-pan, make and fry pancakes, or ‘slap-jacks’, as trappers call them. 1872 C. King Sierra Nevada vii. 148 Such dainties as thrice-turned slap-jacks. 1895 W. Elkington Five Years in Canada xiii. 111 Another favourite dish..is also made of flour and water, mixed into a batter and fried in fat; it is eaten with syrup or sugar, and is called ‘slap-jack’. |
2. A card-game in which a player gains by being the first to slap a jack when played.
| 1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike v, He would labour with sublime patience at the perplexity of ‘Muggins’ or ‘Slap-Jack’, two games of cards, to enliven the dulness of a purely literary evening. |