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tharcake

tharcake noun: a cake made from meal, treacle, and butter, eaten on the night of the fifth of November.

Noun

tharcake (plural tharcakes)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A cake made from meal, treacle, and butter, eaten on the night of the fifth of November.

Forms of tharcake

pluraltharcakes
alternative formtharf-cake
alternative formthardcake

Origin of tharcake

From Middle English þerf cake; equivalent to tharf (“unleavened”) + cake.

Questions about tharcake

What does tharcake mean?
Tharcake means a cake made from meal, treacle, and butter, eaten on the night of the fifth of November.
What part of speech is tharcake?
Tharcake is a noun.
What is the plural of tharcake?
The plural of tharcake is tharcakes.

Words near tharcake in the dictionary

  1. Tharaka
  2. Tharangambadi
  3. Tharau
  4. Tharawal
  5. Tharbogang
  6. tharcake
  7. tharcakes
  8. thardcake
  9. thardcakes
  10. thare
  11. tharf

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