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tharcake

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
thar-cake
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A cake made from meal, treacle, and butter, eaten on the night of the fifth of November.

British usage

Etymology

From Middle English þerf cake; equivalent to tharf (“unleavened”) + cake.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

tharcakes (plural) tharf-cake (alternative) thardcake (alternative)

Questions

What does tharcake mean?
A cake made from meal, treacle, and butter, eaten on the night of the fifth of November.
Where does tharcake come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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