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pound cakes

pound cakes is the plural of pound cake.

Meaning of pound cake

Noun

pound cake (countable and uncountable, plural pound cakes)

  1. (US) A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.
    • But when I got to Anita Bryant′s pound cake, I stopped looking. Her recipe is my favorite so far. The cream isn′t quite authentic—real pound cakes are supposed to contain only butter, sugar, eggs and flour—but it does make the cake′s texture meltier.1993, Ann Hodgman, Beat This! Cookbook, published 1999, page 166
  2. (slang) A term of attraction or desire.
    • She's a cute little pound cake.
  3. (slang) A butt cheek.

Questions about pound cakes

What is pound cakes the plural of?
Pound cakes is the plural of pound cake.

Words near pound cakes in the dictionary

  1. pouncy
  2. Pouncys
  3. pound
  4. pound a beat
  5. pound cake
  6. pound cakes
  7. Pound Creek
  8. pound dirt
  9. pound for pound
  10. pound of flesh
  11. pound one's flounder

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