teacake

Meanings

1. A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.
2. A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea.
3. A bread roll without fruit; a barm.
4. A snack consisting of shortbread topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate.
5. A traditional type of dense, large cookie, typically hard-baked, not particularly sweet, and with few extra fillings.
6. A small delicate cake or pastry; a petit four.
7. A sweet cake similar to pound cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm.
8. A cake flavoured with tea.
9. A fruit cake similar to a barmbrack (but often without yeast) flavoured with tea and whiskey, especially associated with Halloween.
10. A brick of dried tea.

Etymology

From tea + cake.