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heavy cake

/ˈhɛvi ˌkeɪk/

heavy cake noun: a cake of Cornish origin, made with flour, lard, butter, milk, sugar, and raisins.

Noun

heavy cake (plural heavy cakes)

  1. A cake of Cornish origin, made with flour, lard, butter, milk, sugar, and raisins.
    Synonyms:
    fuggan

Synonyms of heavy cake

Forms of heavy cake

pluralheavy cakes
alternative formhevva cake

Origin of heavy cake

Folk-etymological alteration of hevva cake; ultimately from Cornish hedva (“swarm, shoal”).

Questions about heavy cake

What does heavy cake mean?
Heavy cake means a cake of Cornish origin, made with flour, lard, butter, milk, sugar, and raisins.
What part of speech is heavy cake?
Heavy cake is a noun.
How do you pronounce heavy cake?
Heavy cake is pronounced /ˈhɛvi ˌkeɪk/.
What is the plural of heavy cake?
The plural of heavy cake is heavy cakes.

Words near heavy cake in the dictionary

  1. heavy bombers
  2. heavy bread
  3. heavy breather
  4. heavy breathing
  5. heavy breathings
  6. heavy cake
  7. heavy cakes
  8. heavy cavalries
  9. heavy cavalry
  10. heavy client
  11. heavy clients

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