A dense, poorly-leavened bread that travels well, making it a great, tasteless vehicle for calories. It is often used by tradidtional campers who canoe and portage for weeks at a time, as it doesn't fall apart when wet, and can be cooked in the heat of a dying fire for lunch the next day. That allows the campers to unwind instead of cooking, but adds to the density of the food.
Must be an old word for cake, because "bannock-hives" are 'swellings' from eating too many bannocks (i.e., fat rolls).
Must be an old word for cake, because "bannock-hives" are 'swellings' from eating too many bannocks (i.e., fat rolls).
by PTSS December 28, 2005

by Nobli May 21, 2023

A backhanded slap, usually across the face, with a long, wide arc. North American Indian origin (Cree).
Bannock is a rough leavened bread of Scottish origin which became commonplace among N. American Indian Tribes.
Bannock is a rough leavened bread of Scottish origin which became commonplace among N. American Indian Tribes.
Mary saw the woman who snagged her man at last month's powwow, so she walked up to her and gave her a vicious bannock slap.
by piscescree February 11, 2009

by TODD MAN December 09, 2012

A Canadian girl, normally of Aboriginal or First Nations decent, who posses a flat, unappealing buttox.
by twenty- November 23, 2013

by Off tha hook mint flava August 31, 2008

A way female elders of the native American Persuasion punish the ones they are responsible for punishing, For using frybread (fried bannock or baked bannock to strike the baloney out of the mouth of them youngsters.
by Habeas Corpsus 204/431 October 25, 2022
