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johnny cake en · NOUN

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1. (Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, alt-of, alternative, colloquial) Alternative form of johnnycake (“type of basic cornbread”).
   alt of johnnycake
   • The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter. 1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353:
   • The women were good cooks. They used to cook bread, damper and johnny cake in bakers. 1987, Ida West, “Pride Against Prejudice”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 108:

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