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guess cake

guess cake noun: a cake used in a fundraising game, in which individuals pay money to guess the weight of a cake (or, in other versions, to guess the identity of an object baked into the cake), with the cake going to the winner.

Noun

guess cake (plural guess cakes)

  1. (historical) A cake used in a fundraising game, in which individuals pay money to guess the weight of a cake (or, in other versions, to guess the identity of an object baked into the cake), with the cake going to the winner.
    • The principal feature of the evening was a grab bag and a guess cake, from which the ladies realized a handsome sum for the treasury.1892, “Whispers”, in Locomotive Engineers' Monthly Journal, page 334

Forms of guess cake

pluralguess cakes

Questions about guess cake

What does guess cake mean?
Guess cake means a cake used in a fundraising game, in which individuals pay money to guess the weight of a cake (or, in other versions, to guess the identity of an object baked into the cake), with the cake going to the winner.
What part of speech is guess cake?
Guess cake is a noun.
What is the plural of guess cake?
The plural of guess cake is guess cakes.

Words near guess cake in the dictionary

  1. gues
  2. Guesdism
  3. Guesdist
  4. Guesdists
  5. guess
  6. guess cake
  7. guess the verb
  8. guess warp
  9. guess warps
  10. guess what
  11. guess-work

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