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名詞

johnny cake (plural johnny cakes)

1. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of johnnycake (“type of basic cornbread”)
   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353:

     The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.

   • 1987, Ida West, “Pride Against Prejudice”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 108:

     The women were good cooks. They used to cook bread, damper and johnny cake in bakers.