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spekkoek

spekkoek noun: a spiced Indonesian layer cake.

Noun

spekkoek (uncountable)

  1. A spiced Indonesian layer cake.

Origin of spekkoek

Borrowed from Dutch spekkoek, literally “bacon cake”, since its dark and light layers are thought to resemble streaky bacon.

Questions about spekkoek

What does spekkoek mean?
Spekkoek means a spiced Indonesian layer cake.
What part of speech is spekkoek?
Spekkoek is a noun.

Words near spekkoek in the dictionary

  1. spekbooms
  2. speke
  3. Speke's antelope
  4. Speke's gazelle
  5. Speke's gazelles
  6. spekkoek
  7. Spektor
  8. Spektors
  9. spekulatius
  10. spelaean
  11. spelaeogriphacean

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