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Definition: Shortcake |
ShortcakeNoun1. Very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shortcake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Strawberry on the Shortcake (2001) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Turlock, California. Housewife serves dinner in the backyard of her home. Menu: barbecued steaks, fresh peas, potato salad, potato chips, celery and olives, strawberry shortcake, and coffee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Strawberry Shortcake" by Cellulaer Dweller Commentary: "Strawberry Shortcake Birthday." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Shortcake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Shortcake" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shortcake": shortcake-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "shortcake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kek i shkrifët. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сладкиш от маслено тесто (shortbread). (various references) | |
Farsi | نان روغنی , کلوچه ترد (Shortbread). (various references) | |
Greek | φρουτόπιτα. (various references) | |
Italian | frollino (shortbread). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | シュタイナー学校 (a shop, chauvinism, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace, weeping). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ショートケーキ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortcakeshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | bolo com muita manteiga, biscoito (biscuit, cookie). (various references) | |
Russian | песочный торт, песочное печенье (shortbread). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kolač od biskvit testa. (various references) | |
Spanish | torta de frutas, mantecada (sabdwich, shortbread). (various references) | |
Swedish | mördeskaka. (various references) | |
Turkish | kurabiye (biscuit, cookie, cooky, shortbread). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | пісочне печіво (shortbread). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bánh bơ giòn (shortbread). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shortcake": shortcakes. (additional references) | |
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"Shortcake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: shortscale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shortcake" (pronounced shô"rtkā'k) |
| 4 | -t k ā' k | fruitcake, hotcake. |
| 3 | -k ā' k | backache, cheesecake, cupcake, pancake. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-k-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hotcakes, thoraces. | |
-2 letters: chaster, chokers, choreas, coaster, coaters, earshot, hackers, hectors, hockers, hotcake, oraches, rachets, rackets, ratches, restack, restock, retacks, roaches, rochets, rockets, rotches, shocker, stacker, stocker, tackers, tochers, torches, troches. | |
-3 letters: actors, ahorse, arches, arkose, ashore, carets, cartes, casket, caster, castor, caters, chares, charks, charts, chaser, chaste, cheats, cherts, choker, chokes, chorea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-k-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: aftershock, artichokes, shortcakes. | |
+2 letters: aftershocks. | |
+3 letters: weathercocks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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