Word.ws English Dictionary

dead cake

dead cake is the alternative form of deadcake.

Meaning of deadcake

Noun

deadcake (plural deadcakes)

  1. (historical) A small cake or cookie served at a funeral in Dutch-settled colonial New York, often inscribed with the initials of the deceased.
    • The cakes were of an especial kind and were called "deadcakes." In the case of a funeral in the family of the rich, or of those high-up in the official life of the Colony, large sums were spent on the wine and it was not unusual for a supply of it to be put in the cellar long before the first death...1905, George S. Roberts, Old Schenectady, page 45

Forms of dead cake

pluraldead cakes

Questions about dead cake

What is dead cake the alternative form of?
Dead cake is the alternative form of deadcake.

Words near dead cake in the dictionary

  1. dead blocks
  2. dead bolt
  3. dead bolted
  4. dead bolting
  5. dead bolts
  6. dead cake
  7. dead cakes
  8. dead calm
  9. dead cat
  10. dead cat bounce
  11. dead cat bounces

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dead cake (page history and authors); deadcake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dead cake.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dead_cake. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.