flapjacky
adjEtymology From flapjack + -y.
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UK Resembling or characteristic of a flapjack (oat bar).
- The only downside was the lack of vegan puds, they did have an apricotty flapjacky thing but a 'real' cake would have ensured top marks!!2003 April 22, artichoke, “review of guesthouses/restaurants in UK”, in alt.food.vegan (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Nov 2023:
- At least they gave us the choice of having sarnies that expired that day for half price, or fresher ones at full price. We each had a half price butty, a can of elderflower fizzy stuff and Pa had a flapjacky thing.2004 September 8, Fenny, “I'd be dangerous if I had a brian^([sic])”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Nov 2023:
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- There’s a limited selection of designer healthfood in a chiller cabinet, mainly pre-packaged salads (greek, niçoise, spinach) and sandwiches (tuna, mangetout, beansprouts and soy sauce on rather heavy rye bread), plus fruit and a few flapjacky cakes.2005, Cheap Eats in London, London: Time Out Guides Ltd, →ISBN, page 33:
- You know the one... one girl reckons that the biscuits she's advertising are made in a magic box. The other one says "It's called an oven!" / "Oats, Michelle! That's why they're so flapjacky and satisfyin'. Oats! Not magic!"2006 July 24, Enzo Matrix, “Sarah's Mum”, in alt.funnytown (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Nov 2023:
- It's a woefully belated elevenses - tea and biscuits and a Falconful of Old Gowrie. […] It's very nice tobacco, though. All sweet, flapjacky goodness. I'm all the fonder of it because, yesterday, I tried some Grousemoor.2007 March 6, Burbage, “Tuesday AM SMoke”, in alt.smokers.pipes (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Nov 2023:
- If I get my act together I'll do a few seedy nutty flapjacky traybakey type things to bring2007 September 3, Josie Stewart, “food at Burnlaw”, in MADD (Google Groups), archived from the original on 12 Nov 2023:
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US Resembling or characteristic of an (American) pancake.
- Flapjacks must be a sort of natural boy food the world over, for a New York city organization has found itself compelled to provide this American dish at its boys’ camp at Lake Membosha, New York, and also at another boys’ camp, the first of its kind in Cuba, which it helps the Asociacion de Jovenes Cristianos, of Havana, to run for Cuban youngsters, at Mariel Bay. […] And the name of the camp is “Camp Skidoo,” which certainly has a flapjacky sound.1907 September 8, “Flapjacks in Cuba. They Help Solve the Help Problem in a Boys’ Camp There. New York Tribune.”, in Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y., second part, page 8, columns 5–6:
- “You once told me a man is what he eats. I ate flapjacks for breakfast and I’ve felt kind of flapjacky all day.”1961 October 5, Cecil Smith, “The TV Scene---Mr. Beanblossom Spreads Wings”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXXX, Los Angeles, Calif., part II, page 14:
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- “What you got against pancakes? You prejudiced against Aunt Jemima?” / “I am flapjacky about pancakes,” I said. “And Aunt Jemima is a nice, fat old broad. But how do you sell the kids on athletics as a manly endeavour when the pre-game meal is pancakes?”1971 May 14, “Clancy Loranger”, in The Province, Vancouver, B.C., page 20:
- Saturday meant pancakes. And not any old kind of pancakes. English pancakes with sugar and lemon juice, not the flapjacky kind with blueberries and syrup.2007, Alan Jones, ““I Tell You a Further Mystery””, in Roger Ferlo, editor, Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Seabury Books, Church Publishing Incorporated, →ISBN, page 119:
- And that question my mom posed over pancakes, about what I would change if I could. I gulped down a mouthful of fluffy, yummy, flapjacky goodness, then answered her.2018, Marley Dias, “Herstory: Who I Am, How This All Began”, in Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, page 25, column 1: