teacake

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. Ireland,Southern-England,UK
    — Molly poured from the teapot and Judith drank the strong hot tea and ate the buttered teacakes.
  2. 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. Cumbria,Northern-England
    — ... in Yorkshire and Lancashire mill-workers largely use the plain teacake as a convenient form of bread to be consumed at the meals which they carry with them to eat during the day when living far from their work.
  3. 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. Ireland,Scotland,UK
    — Sometimes there was a Tunnock's wafer or (bastard) a chocolate marshmallow teacake in its red-and-silver foil.
  4. 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. Southern-US,US,especially
    — He turned to get her attention then, but I didn't hear what he said because that was when Celeste asked me if a teacake was an American madeleine. And I said not really because it was really a very plain, not very sweet soft cookie, whereas a madeleine was very sweet like a down-home muffin and was baked in a muffin pan.
  5. 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. US
    — Madeleines: These buttery French teacakes, something between a sponge cake and a butter cake in texture, are traditionally baked in scallop-shaped madeleine molds, but you can use miniature muffin pans or small tartlet pans in any shape.
  6. 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. Australia
    — Teacakes in Australia are actually pound cakes, sometimes sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon and so called just because they are eaten at teatime.
  7. A cake flavoured with tea.
  8. 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. Ireland
    — Barm brack, a raisin-studded teacake of gargantuan proportions, is the speciality of many an Irish matron. In the right hands, it is a divine thing. Ma's hands were not the right hands
  9. A brick of dried tea.
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:teacake.

词形变化

teacakes plural tea-cake alternative

词汇关系

词源

From tea + cake.
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