pancake (iou) and bonk 2, noun (oh)

pancake (iou)

pancake noun & verb. ME.
[from PAN noun1 + CAKE noun.]
A. noun.
A thin flat cake made of batter, usu. lightly fried and turned in a pan and often rolled up with a filling. ME.
(as) flat as a pancake completely flat. Scotch pancake: see SCOTCH adjective.
Nautical. A piece of pancake-ice. M19.
A flat hat. Also pancake beret, pancake hat, etc. US. L19.
More fully pancake landing. A landing in which an aircraft drops vertically after having levelled out close to the ground, e.g. when its landing gear is damaged or as a result of an unintended stall. E20.
(Also Pan-Cake.) (Proprietary name for) make-up, esp. foundation in the form of a flat cake. M20.
Comb.: pancake batter the mixture from which pancakes are made; pancake-bell Hist.: rung on the morning of Shrove Tuesday; pancake coil Electricity a flat or very short inductance coil; Pancake Day Shrove Tuesday (from the custom of eating pancakes on that day); pancake-ice floating ice in thin flat pieces, forming in polar seas at the approach of winter; pancake landing: see sense 4 above; pancake race a race held in some places on Shrove Tuesday, in which the participants toss pancakes as they run; pancake roll a rolled pancake with a savoury meat or vegetable filling; Pancake Tuesday = Pancake Day above.
b. verb.
verb trans. Flatten, esp. destructively; knock down. L19.
verb intrans. Aeronautics. (Of an aircraft) descend rapidly in a level position in stalled flight, make a pancake landing; (of a pilot) cause an aircraft to pancake. E20.

bonk 2, noun (oh)

2 n
[singular] BrE informal the action of having sex - used humorously
::a quick bonk
[C] informal the action of hitting someone lightly on the head, or hitting your head against something
[C] informal a sudden short deep sound, for example when something hits the ground

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