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shortcakey

shortcakey adjective: resembling or characteristic of shortcake.

Adjective

shortcakey (comparative more shortcakey, superlative most shortcakey)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of shortcake.
    • Simple though this method is there is no danger of losing fruit by using it, and the tasty mixture will be found ripe and ready for a midwinter shortcake, which will be, I am assured, as appetizing and as short-cakey as if made in leafy June.1899 August 30, “In Woman’s World”, in The Jersey City News, volume XI, number 3159, Jersey City, N.J., page [3], column 1
    • It is cakey or shortcakey, fried up with a nicely crispy exterior, and a moist, rich, buttery interior (very moist and rich if you select one of the options with a filling inside).2010 January 15, Mick Vann, “Gourdough’s”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 29, number 20, page 33, column 2

Examples of shortcakey in a sentence

  • Anne Reeves had asked Nell to make some shortcakey iced biscuits.2012, Margaret Morgan, “The Wedding Day”, in Mrs McKeiver’s Secrets, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics: Matador, →ISBN, page 56:
  • S also liked, to the point of insisting that I taste all the parts in various permutations, her coconut panna cotta with pineapple, cherry coulis and some shortcakey biscuits.2013 August 18, Zoe Williams, “The Olde Bell”, in Stella (The Sunday Telegraph), page 51:
  • Ved became distracted by a shortcakey biscuit, and ate it.2021, Anjali Joseph, Keeping in Touch, Melbourne, Vic.: Scribe Publications, published 2022, →ISBN:

Forms of shortcakey

comparativemore shortcakey
superlativemost shortcakey

Origin of shortcakey

From shortcake + -y.

Questions about shortcakey

What does shortcakey mean?
Shortcakey means resembling or characteristic of shortcake.
How do you use shortcakey in a sentence?
Anne Reeves had asked Nell to make some shortcakey iced biscuits.
What part of speech is shortcakey?
Shortcakey is an adjective.

Words near shortcakey in the dictionary

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

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