flapjack
noun
[ ˈflapdʒak ]
• a sweet dense cake made from oats, golden syrup, and melted butter, served in rectangles.
• a pancake.
Origin:
early 17th century (in flapjack (sense 2 of the noun)): from flap (in the dialect sense ‘toss a pancake’) + jack1; sense 1 dates from the 1930s and is probably a regional coinage.
