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• bannik

From Middle English bannoke, from Old English bannuc, from Old Irish bannach, based on Latin pānicum (“millet”). Doublet of bonnag.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbæ.nək/

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bannock (usually uncountable, plural bannocks)

1. (especially Scotland, Northern England) An unleavened bread made with barley, wheat, or oatmeal.
   • 1894, Joseph Jacobs, “More English Fairy Tales”, in The Wee Bannock, D. Nutt:

     So she baked two oatmeal bannocks, and set them on to the fire to harden. After a while, the old man came in, and sat down beside the fire, and takes one of the bannocks, and snaps it through the middle.

2. (Canada) A biscuit bread made of wheat flour or cornmeal, fat, and sometimes baking powder, typically baked over a fire, wrapped around a stick or in a pan.
   • 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 8, in Klee Wyck‎^[1]:

     “The boats are coming!” The cry rang through the village. Women left their bannock-baking, their basketweaving and hurried to the shore.

   • 2007, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Turtle Valley, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 54:

     My father’s bannock was nothing but lard, flour, salt, and baking powder patted into big rounds and cooked on sticks over a campfire.

   1. (specifically) This or any similar traditional bread when made by indigenous Americans, originally from native sources such as maize or pseudocereals and plants with starchy roots

       

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      Synonyms: Indian bread, alatiq, skaan

• currant-bannock
• bannock puncher

• frybread, dog bread (US terms for specific breads which would all be called bannock in Canada)

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