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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
hoecake
 
SYLLABICATION:hoe·cake
PRONUNCIATION:  hkk
NOUN: Chiefly Southern U.S. See johnnycake. See Regional Note at johnnycake.
ETYMOLOGY:Possibly because it was sometimes baked on the blade of a hoe.
 
 
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