it's basically a pancake made with cornmeal.
Hoecake got it's name from the native americans.They actually use to cook it on a gardening hoe.
cupcake, shortcake, griddlecake, hoecake.....cakehole
Field workers would cook corn batter on hoes, or the backs of shovels over an open fire.
The first syllable is "poe." The second syllable is "kwayg," to rhyme with "vague." The stress can be on either syllable--more likely "po-QUAG" like "opaque" if you live in, as my mom put it, "Upper Poughquag" with the mansions, "PO-quag" like "hoecake" if you live in "Lower Poughquag" by the railroad tracks.
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern H---AK-. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter H and 5th letter A and 6th letter K. In alphabetical order, they are: hoecake hotcake
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 4 words with the pattern H--CA--. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter H and 4th letter C and 5th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are: hepcats hoecake hotcake hubcaps
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern HOE-A--. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter H and 2nd letter O and 3rd letter E and 5th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are: hoecake
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 8 words with the pattern ---CAK-. That is, seven letter words with 4th letter C and 5th letter A and 6th letter K. In alphabetical order, they are: ashcake carcake cupcake hoecake hotcake oatcake pancake teacake
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern H-ECA--. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter H and 3rd letter E and 4th letter C and 5th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are: hoecake
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern -OEC--E. That is, seven letter words with 2nd letter O and 3rd letter E and 4th letter C and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: hoecake
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern --ECA-E. That is, seven letter words with 3rd letter E and 4th letter C and 5th letter A and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: hoecake thecate
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 8 words with the pattern -O--AK-. That is, seven letter words with 2nd letter O and 5th letter A and 6th letter K. In alphabetical order, they are: bogoaks forsake hoecake hotcake mousaka oomiaks rokkaku tombaks