Definitions
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- noun US, regional
johnnycake
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He had a piece of roasted pork and "ashcake," and offered me some which I was afraid to refuse Of course I did not inform on him.
The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, 1895
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I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, and after eating an ashcake and rinsing my tired limbs, I followed Mary out the door.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, and after eating an ashcake and rinsing my tired limbs, I followed Mary out the door.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, and after eating an ashcake and rinsing my tired limbs, I followed Mary out the door.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, and after eating an ashcake and rinsing my tired limbs, I followed Mary out the door.
Good Fortune Noni Carter 2010
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Us had dem good old red peas cooked wid side meat in a pot in de fireplace, and ashcake to go wid 'em.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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You had to dust off de bread 'fore you et it, but ashcake was mighty good, folks what lived off of it didn't git sick lak dey does now a-eatin 'dis white flour bread all de time.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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Marster fed us plenty ashcake, fresh meat, and ash roasted
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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They biled in pots hangin 'from hooks on a iron bar that went all the way 'cross the fireplace, and the bakin' was done in skillets and ovens, but sometimes bread was wropt up in cabbage or collard leaves and baked in hot ashes; that was ashcake.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Under the blazing logs, which filled the hut with an almost unbearable heat, an ashcake was buried beneath a little gravelike mound of ashes.
The Battle Ground Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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