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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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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.
"In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast."

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houghnoun	A surname.
hominynoun	A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.
hoedownnoun	A type of American folk or square dance.
horseshoenoun	The U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.
hoe-downnoun	Alternative spelling of hoedown. [A type of American folk or square dance.]
hoicknoun	Alternative spelling of hoik. [(cricket, countable) A wild hook shot played without style.]
hockamorenoun	(obsolete) A Rhenish white wine.
hakenoun	One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
hominy snownoun	(US, Southern, uncountable) A type of icy, granular snow that looks like hominy.
houseshoenoun	(chiefly Southern US) A slipper, moccasin, or other warm footwear not appropriate for outdoor use.
hoopnoun	A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
honyaknoun	(slang) Alternative spelling of honyock. [(US, slang) A person (especially a farmer) of relatively recent Central or Eastern European peasant extraction.]
cowhanoun	Obsolete form of coffee. [17th century] [(uncountable) A beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water.]
honienoun	Obsolete form of honey. [(uncountable) A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.]
honeysucknoun	(dialect, archaic) honeysuckle
country hamnoun	(US) A variety of cured ham, typically very salty, traditionally prepared in the rural parts of the southern United States.
hoky-pokynoun	Fraudulent; trickish.
hokenoun	Something contrived or artificial.
hovernoun	An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
hoopteenoun	(slang, African-American) Alternative spelling of hooptie. [(slang, African-American) An old car that has been remodeled or reformed in some way, shape, or form.; a classic, a banger.]