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fern cake

fern cake noun: a Scottish confection consisting of a small round iced cake with a chocolate fern traced on top.

Noun

fern cake (plural fern cakes)

  1. A Scottish confection consisting of a small round iced cake with a chocolate fern traced on top.
    • The last fern cake, and you hid it, you deceitful girl!1978, Mary Burg Whitcomb, Tee-Bo in the Great Hort Hunt, page 68
    • So both of us were satisfied when she whispered "Wid ye like my pie" and sometimes it stretched to a fern cake or an eiffel tower as well.1998, Robert L. Aitken, Not Many Noble: A Story of the Lanarkshire Coalfield, page 210

Forms of fern cake

pluralfern cakes

Questions about fern cake

What does fern cake mean?
Fern cake means a Scottish confection consisting of a small round iced cake with a chocolate fern traced on top.
What part of speech is fern cake?
Fern cake is a noun.
What is the plural of fern cake?
The plural of fern cake is fern cakes.

Words near fern cake in the dictionary

  1. fern ally
  2. fern bar
  3. fern bars
  4. Fern Bay
  5. fern bush
  6. fern cake
  7. fern cakes
  8. fern gullies
  9. fern gully
  10. Fern Hill
  11. fern house

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