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pea-cake

pea-cake is the alternative form of peacake.

Meaning of peacake

Noun

peacake (countable and uncountable, plural peacakes)

  1. A type of cake made with peas as the main ingredient.
    • Mr Malik had grown to quite like pea-cake, though he only ate one sugar biscuit and that was out of politeness.2008, Nicholas Drayson, A Guide to the Birds of East Africa, page 91

Forms of pea-cake

pluralpea-cakes

Questions about pea-cake

What is pea-cake the alternative form of?
Pea-cake is the alternative form of peacake.

Words near pea-cake in the dictionary

  1. pea whistle
  2. pea whistles
  3. pea-brain
  4. pea-brained
  5. pea-brains
  6. pea-cake
  7. pea-cakes
  8. pea-coated
  9. pea-combed
  10. pea-jacketed
  11. pea-knuckle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pea-cake (page history and authors); peacake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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