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fish-cake

fish-cake is the alternative spelling of fishcake.

Meaning of fishcake

Noun

fishcake (countable and uncountable, plural fishcakes)

  1. A mixture of flaked fish, mashed potato or another starch, and seasoning, made into a patty and shallow fried.
    • There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days

Forms of fish-cake

pluralfish-cakes

Questions about fish-cake

What is fish-cake the alternative spelling of?
Fish-cake is the alternative spelling of fishcake.

Words near fish-cake in the dictionary

  1. fish-belly girder
  2. fish-belly girders
  3. fish-blooded
  4. fish-brain
  5. fish-brained
  6. fish-cake
  7. fish-cakes
  8. fish-eating
  9. fish-eating crocodile
  10. fish-eating grin
  11. fish-eating grins

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