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noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Southern-England, UK
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noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
A bread roll without fruit; a barm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Cumbria, Northern-England
Qualifier: Lancashire and West Yorkshire
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noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
A snack consisting of shortbread or wafer topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, Scotland, UK
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noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
A traditional type of dense, large cookie, typically hard-baked, not particularly sweet, and with few extra fillings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, US, especially
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noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
A small delicate cake or pastry; a petit four.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
A sweet cake similar to pound cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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noun
A cake flavoured with tea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A cake flavoured with tea.
A fruit cake similar to a barmbrack (but often without yeast) flavoured with tea and whiskey, especially associated with Halloween.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland
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Synonyms: tea brack
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noun
A brick of dried tea.
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noun
any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cake
Narrower terms: Sally Lunn
noun
flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tea biscuit
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Broader terms: cookie, cooky, biscuit
History
From tea + cake.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
