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funnel cake

funnel cake noun: a specialty food made from deep-fried batter and originally associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch region of the United States.

funnel cake: a specialty food made from deep-fried batter and originally associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch...
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Noun

funnel cake (countable and uncountable, plural funnel cakes)

  1. (US) A specialty food made from deep-fried batter and originally associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch region of the United States.
    • Tomas Montoya has sold festival foods—funnel cakes, burgers, hot dogs—across the American Southwest for years. But lately, business has been rough.2026 April 16, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Elaine Godfrey, “Trump Voters Are Over It”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC

Forms of funnel cake

pluralfunnel cakes

Origin of funnel cake

From funnel + cake, since it is made by pouring batter through a funnel into hot oil.

Questions about funnel cake

What does funnel cake mean?
Funnel cake means a specialty food made from deep-fried batter and originally associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch region of the United States.
What part of speech is funnel cake?
Funnel cake is a noun.
What is the plural of funnel cake?
The plural of funnel cake is funnel cakes.

Words near funnel cake in the dictionary

  1. funned up
  2. funnel
  3. funnel account
  4. funnel box
  5. funnel boxes
  6. funnel cake
  7. funnel cakes
  8. funnel chanterelle
  9. funnel chanterelles
  10. funnel chart
  11. funnel charts

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