shortcake
shortcake noun: a sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
Noun
shortcake (countable and uncountable, plural shortcakes)
- A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
- A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit.
- Synonym of shortbread
- Synonyms:
- shortbread
shortcake meaning in Tamil
shortcake in Tamil
- உதிர் அப்ப வகை
Synonyms of shortcake
Forms of shortcake
| plural | shortcakes |
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Origin of shortcake
From short + cake.
Words formed from shortcake
Questions about shortcake
- What does shortcake mean?
- Shortcake means a sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda.
- What is shortcake in Tamil?
- Shortcake in Tamil is உதிர் அப்ப வகை. See Shortcake meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is shortcake?
- Shortcake is a noun.
- What is the plural of shortcake?
- The plural of shortcake is shortcakes.
Words near shortcake in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortcake (page history and authors); shortcake (Tamil 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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