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carrot cake

carrot cake noun: a sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot.

carrot cake: a sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot
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Noun

carrot cake (countable and uncountable, plural carrot cakes)

  1. A sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot.
  2. (Singapore) Turnip cake; radish cake (a savoury cake containing radish, usually pan-fried).
  3. (Singapore) Synonym of chai tow kway (“a dish of stir-fried radish cakes and eggs”).
    Synonyms:
    chai tow kway

Synonyms of carrot cake

Forms of carrot cake

pluralcarrot cakes

Origin of carrot cake

The Singaporean senses are calque of Hokkien 菜頭粿 /菜头粿 (chhài-thâu-kóe / chhài-thâu-ké / chhài-thâu-kér, literally “radish cake”), which may have arisen from a confusion between Hokkien 菜頭 /菜头 (chhài-thâu, “radish”) and 紅菜頭 /红菜头 (âng-chhài-thâu, “carrot”, literally “red radish”).

Questions about carrot cake

What does carrot cake mean?
Carrot cake means a sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot.
What part of speech is carrot cake?
Carrot cake is a noun.
What is the plural of carrot cake?
The plural of carrot cake is carrot cakes.

Words near carrot cake in the dictionary

  1. carrot bacon
  2. carrot bag
  3. carrot bags
  4. carrot beetle
  5. carrot beetles
  6. carrot cake
  7. carrot cakes
  8. carrot cruncher
  9. carrot crunchers
  10. carrot dog
  11. carrot dogs

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