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How to pronounce teacake in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms tea biscuit
Type of cooky, biscuit, cookie
Type Words
Type of cake
Has types sally lunn

Examples of teacake

teacake
Wonderful apron with the iconic Tunnocks teacake design, printed on organic cotton.
From the guardian.co.uk
Bedtime supper consisted of Horlicks and a toasted teacake, spread thick with cold butter.
From the guardian.co.uk
Fried egg, fried bacon, fried tomato in a big teacake.
From the guardian.co.uk
George, snake-hipped and gorgeous, has no qualms about eating all this plus the witty chicory teacake served with coffee.
From the independent.co.uk
Many people pop in for a tea or coffee and a toasted teacake or scone but others are after more substantial fare.
From the edp24.co.uk
But so's a toasted teacake, or regional variant.
From the guardian.co.uk
The teacake needs more recognition rather than being shunted off to the side in favour of the flashier hot cross bun.
From the guardian.co.uk
It had the most mills, and the most places likely to serve you a teacake, or fish and chips for half the price you'd pay anywhere else.
From the guardian.co.uk
The tea pot, hot water jug, sugar basin and milk jug were in chrome and the lovely toasted teacake, oozing with butter, was served on a chrome dish with a cover.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
More examples
  • Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea
  • Any of various small cakes or cookies often served with tea
  • A teacake or tea cake is a kind of bread or cake. The name is commonly used for whatever bread or cake is traditionally served for afternoon tea within a region, but can be applied loosely to any kind of cake that is sturdy enough to be picked up with the fingers. Teacake is normally not frosted.
  • A light yeast-based usually sweet bun eaten at tea, often toasted.
  • N. 1. A kind of sweetened bread with raisins, often served toasted. There are lots of cakes like this: bath buns, Chelsea buns and Eccles cakes. Breads come in many varieties also, such as: baps, bridge rolls, finger rolls and cottage loaf.