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tharf-cake

tharf-cake is the alternative spelling of tharcake.

Meaning of tharcake

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 tharf-cake

pluraltharf-cakes

Questions about tharf-cake

What is tharf-cake the alternative spelling of?
Tharf-cake is the alternative spelling of tharcake.

Words near tharf-cake in the dictionary

  1. tharcakes
  2. thardcake
  3. thardcakes
  4. thare
  5. tharf
  6. tharf-cake
  7. tharf-cakes
  8. Thargelia
  9. Thargelion
  10. tharid
  11. tharids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tharf-cake (page history and authors); tharcake (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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