Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

depression cake

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.24 in modern English

Syllables
de-pres-sion -cake
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A kind of cake, common during the Depression and still baked today, that used little or no milk, butter, eggs, and sometimes sugar (as these were expensive or unobtainable).

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

Depression cakes (plural)

Phrases

war cake

Frequently Paired Words

war cake

Synonyms

poor man's cake

Questions

What does depression cake mean?
A kind of cake, common during the Depression and still baked today, that used little or no milk, butter, eggs, and sometimes sugar (as these were expensive or unobtainable).

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