"oatcake" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-oatcake.wav [US] Forms: oatcakes [plural]
Etymology: From oat + cake. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|oat|cake}} oat + cake Head templates: {{en-noun}} oatcake (plural oatcakes)
  1. Any of many flat biscuits, or cakes, made from oatmeal. Synonyms: oatmeal cake Hypernyms: cake Coordinate_terms: pancake (english: nearly hypernymous), bannock, corncake (english: bread or cookie), oatbread, oatmeal cookie
    Sense id: en-oatcake-en-noun-yRqjii4G
  2. Any of many flat biscuits, or cakes, made from oatmeal.
    (Potteries dialect) a Staffordshire oatcake
    Synonyms: oatmeal cake Hypernyms: cake Coordinate_terms: pancake (english: nearly hypernymous), bannock, corncake (english: bread or cookie), oatbread, oatmeal cookie
    Sense id: en-oatcake-en-noun-5sicCnkd Categories (other): Potteries English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Cakes and pastries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 65 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 29 71 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 27 73 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 23 77 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 25 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 19 81 Disambiguation of Cakes and pastries: 35 65
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (biscuit of cake from oatmeal): Haferkeks [masculine] (German), Haferplätzchen [neuter] (German), arán coirce [masculine] (Irish), bonnóg arán coirce [feminine] (Irish), briosca coirce [masculine] (Irish), císte aráin choirce [masculine] (Irish), sruán coirce [masculine] (Irish), ciasteczko owsiane [neuter] (Polish), aran-coirce [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), корж (korž) (Ukrainian)
Disambiguation of 'biscuit of cake from oatmeal': 50 50

Inflected forms

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