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hoecake.

A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.

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noun
  1. A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.

    Southern-US · dated
Where this word comes from

From hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).

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