piecake
piecake noun: a combination of pie and cake.
Noun
piecake (countable and uncountable, plural piecakes)
- A combination of pie and cake.
- “I just got up early to make a piecake.” “A piecake?” cried Uncle Wiggily, wondering whether his ears were awake yet, or half asleep. “Yes, a piecake,” said Alice. “[…] I’m going to make a piecake, and take it to Grandfather Goosey Gander before school.”[…]“But I never heard of a piecake. Don’t you...1920 April 16, Howard R. Garis, “Uncle Wiggily and Alicer’s Piecake”, in The Evening Sun, volume XX, number 155, Baltimore, Md., page 10
- Tell Alice I would like to have tasted her piecake. I could just picture the bad old pip sitting down eating Alice’s nice piecake.1920 April 30, Dorothy Elizabeth Young, “Mail Box of Mr. Longears, the Rabbit Gentleman”, in The St. Louis Star, volume 34, number 180, St. Louis, Mo., page 19
Examples of piecake in a sentence
- “I just got up early to make a piecake.” “A piecake?” cried Uncle Wiggily, wondering whether his ears were awake yet, or half asleep.1920 April 16, Howard R. Garis, “Uncle Wiggily and Alicer’s Piecake”, in The Evening Sun, volume XX, number 155, Baltimore, Md., page 10:
- The odds are, however, a thousand-to-one that there will be no piecake leftovers when you make it the first time—or when you make it the second time, the third time or the 75th time.1953 October 29, “New Meal-topper Invented: Piecake Joins ‘Cousins’ as Dessert Entity”, in The Evening Eagle, volume 27, number 269...
- The walnut has to share top billing with the cranberry in the second recipe: Easy Cranberry Piecake.1998 December 17, “From our mailbox to your table: Walnuts, cranberries on a delicious roll for bakers for the holidays”, in Pittsburgh...
- For those looking for the unusual or off-beat, try a pie-cake, the turducken of desserts.[…]Table of Contents[…]Piecake 602011 November 20, “Christmas Time Book 2011”, in Regina Sun, page 3:
Forms of piecake
| plural | piecakes |
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Origin of piecake
From pie + cake.
Questions about piecake
- What does piecake mean?
- Piecake means a combination of pie and cake.
- How do you use piecake in a sentence?
- “I just got up early to make a piecake.” “A piecake?” cried Uncle Wiggily, wondering whether his ears were awake yet, or half asleep.
- What part of speech is piecake?
- Piecake is a noun.
- What is the plural of piecake?
- The plural of piecake is piecakes.
Words near piecake in the dictionary
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