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shortcakes

shortcakes is the plural of shortcake.

Meaning of shortcake

Noun

shortcake (countable and uncountable, plural shortcakes)

  1. 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.
  2. A dessert made with such a cake, typically having layers of cream and fruit.
  3. (UK) Synonym of shortbread
    Synonyms:
    shortbread

Questions about shortcakes

What is shortcakes the plural of?
Shortcakes is the plural of shortcake.

Words near shortcakes in the dictionary

  1. shortbows
  2. shortbread
  3. shortbreads
  4. shortbreathed
  5. shortcake
  6. shortcakes
  7. shortcakey
  8. shortcast
  9. shortcasts
  10. shortcel
  11. shortcels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shortcakes (page history and authors); shortcake (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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