shortbread
shortbread noun: a type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.
Noun
shortbread (countable and uncountable, plural shortbreads)
shortbread meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Myanmar
shortbread in Tamil
- உதிர் அப்ப வகை
shortbread in Bengali
- এক প্রকার বিস্কুট
shortbread in Kannada
- biscuit
- ಗರುಗ ರೊಟ್ಟಿ garuga roṭṭi, ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ ಬಿಸ್ಕತ್ತು beṇṇe biskattu
shortbread in Myanmar
- biscuit
- နံကထိုင် namka.htuing
Forms of shortbread
| plural | shortbreads |
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Origin of shortbread
From short (“brittle, of pastry”) + bread.
Words formed from shortbread
Questions about shortbread
- What does shortbread mean?
- Shortbread means a type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.
- What is shortbread in Tamil?
- Shortbread in Tamil is உதிர் அப்ப வகை. See Shortbread meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is shortbread?
- Shortbread is a noun.
- What is the plural of shortbread?
- The plural of shortbread is shortbreads.
Words near shortbread in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortbread (page history and authors); shortbread (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); shortbread (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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