"shortcake" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shortcakes [plural]
Etymology: short + cake Etymology templates: {{compound|en|short|cake}} short + cake Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} shortcake (countable and uncountable, plural shortcakes)
  1. A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cakes and pastries
    Sense id: en-shortcake-en-noun-mjij~xqj Disambiguation of Cakes and pastries: 54 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 89 11 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 87 13
  2. A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Cakes and pastries Translations (type of cake): murokakku (Finnish), ショートケーキ (shōtokēki) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-shortcake-en-noun-TEdhqIGW Disambiguation of Cakes and pastries: 54 46 Disambiguation of 'type of cake': 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: shortcakey, strawberry shortcake

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for shortcake meaning in English (3.4kB)

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