pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2024)

pancake n.2

[play on the SE comestible, with ref. to being ‘good enough to eat’ or ‘flipped’]

1. the vagin*.

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pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (1)Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.

2. (US) an attractive young woman, esp. with overtones of promiscuity.

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pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2)D. Runyon ‘Romance in the Roaring Forties’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 42: This little red-headed pancake.
pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (3)D. Runyon Runyon à la Carte 131: I am more than surprised that he is carrying the torch for such a looking pancake as this Barbecue.
pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (4)D. Niland Gold in the Streets (1966) 121: The dreamy waitress dawdled up. Danno thought: About time too, you flat-chested pancake.

3. (US black) a black person viewed as overly friendly towards, or imitative of whites [a pancake is cooked brown on the outside but is white within].

pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (5)Z.N. Hurston ‘Story in Harlem Sl.’ in Novels and Stories (1995) 1009: Pancake: a humble type of Negro.
pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (6)R.S. Gold ‘Vernacular of the Jazz World’ in AS XXXII:4 277: pancake. A humble type of Negro.
pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (7)Maledicta VII 23: Pancake, and there are buckwheat pancakes, was among blacks an ingroup slur for an ‘Uncle Tom.’ This nexus might have been influenced, moreover, by the ‘Aunt Jemima’ brand of pancake mixes, which includes a buckwheat mix.

4. (US gay) a heterosexual woman [from a gay perspective, she is ‘flipped’ into the missionary position for sex].

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pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (8)B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 81: a straight woman; any woman [...] pancake (dated, ’40s, fr the facial cosmetic).

5. (US gay) one who engages in hom*osexual intercourse and takes both the dominant and passive roles [he or she is ‘flipped’ from being sexually ‘on top’ or ‘underneath’].

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pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (9)L. Pettiway Honey, Honey, Miss Thang 144: When it comes to hom*osexuality they done a whole lot on both sides. My mom calls it ‘pancakes,’ ‘making pancakes’. [Ibid.] 197: I consider him a straight man. But if he doing me and I’m doing him, he’s gay. If he’s pancake, if he’s flip-flopping, then he’s gay. If he is not flip-flopping, then he’s not gay, he bisexual or he straight.
pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (10)Gaymart.com Queer Sl. in the Gay 90s 🌐 Pancake – A 1950’s term among African-American lesbians to denote a butch who allowed herself to be flipped – from ‘top’ to ‘bottom’.
pancake, n.² — Green’s Dictionary of Slang (2024)
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