bannock
pronunciation
How to pronounce bannock in British English:
UK ['bænək]
How to pronounce bannock in American English:
US ['bænək]
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- Noun:
- a flat bread made of oat or barley flour; common in New England and Scotland
Word Origin
- bannock (n.)
- "thick flat cake," Old English bannuc "a bit, small piece," from Gaelic bannach "a cake," perhaps a loan from Latin panicium, from panis "bread" (see food).
Example
- 1. Bannock : a native american people inhabiting southeast idaho and western wyoming .
- 2. Its people , most of whom spoke shoshonean or uto-aztecan dialects ( the bannock , paiute and ute , for example ) , foraged for roots , seeds and nuts and hunted snakes , lizards and small mammals .