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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pound cake.wav Forms: pound cakes [plural]
Etymology: From pound (unit of weight) + cake. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pound cake (countable and uncountable, plural pound cakes)
  1. (US) A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar. Tags: US, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cakes and pastries Synonyms: poundcake Coordinate_terms: sponge cake Translations (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar): 磅蛋糕 (bàng dàngāo) (Chinese Mandarin), pund-til-pund-kage [common-gender] (Danish), quatre-quarts [masculine] (French), Rührkuchen [masculine] (German), עוּגַת פָּאוּנְד (ugát páund) [feminine] (Hebrew), sandkaka (Icelandic), torta quattro quarti [feminine] (Italian), パウンドケーキ (paundo kēki) (Japanese), 파운드 케이크 (paundeu keikeu) (Korean), کیک پوند (keyk pund) (Persian), babka piaskowa [feminine] (Polish), фу́нтовый кекс (fúntovyj keks) [masculine] (Russian), panqué [Mexico, Venezuela, masculine] (Spanish), queque [Chile, Costa-Rica, El-Salvador, masculine] (Spanish), ponqué [Colombia, masculine] (Spanish), teisen driphwys [feminine] (Welsh)
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  2. (slang) A term of attraction or desire. Tags: countable, slang, uncountable
    Sense id: en-pound_cake-en-noun-SA7hrcTi

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.