teacake
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
British usage
noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
British usage
noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
American usage
noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
American usage
noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
Australian usage
Example Sentences
- "Molly poured from the teapot and Judith drank the strong hot tea and ate the buttered teacakes."
- "Traditionalists will adore the Lanesborough on Hyde Park Corner, with its stately decor, toasted teacakes and clotted cream-laden scones."
- "I love the tart, sticky fruit in a warm toasted teacake."
- "... in Yorkshire and Lancashire mill-workers largely use the plain teacake as a convenient form of bread to be consumed at the meals which they carry with them to eat during the day when living far from their work."
- "I thought at the time that they must be deaf or daft in Sheffield. I'd noticed the same at Slack's bread shop on Staniforth Road. I had asked for a teacake and ended up with a currant breadcake."
- "Outside a bread shop in the city centre [Bradford], a queue of two dozen students formed. They wore red armbands and carried the slogan 'Peace, Land, Bread'. Each student bought one teacake."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- American usage
- Australian usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
tea brack
tea biscuit