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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 brain
  2. pea brains
  3. pea bug
  4. pea butter
  5. pea butters
  6. pea cake
  7. pea cakes
  8. pea clam
  9. pea clams
  10. pea coat
  11. pea coats

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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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