teacake (English, noun)
expansion: teacake (plural teacakes)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: Ireland
Southern-England
UK
glosses: 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.
qualifier: Lancashire and West Yorkshire
tags: Cumbria
Northern-England
glosses: 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 topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate.
tags: Ireland
Scotland
UK
glosses: 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.
tags: Southern-US
US
especially
glosses: 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.
tags: US
glosses: 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.
tags: Australia
glosses: A cake flavoured with tea.
glosses: 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.
tags: Ireland
glosses: A brick of dried tea.
Forms:
form: teacakes
tags: plural
form: tea-cake
tags: alternative