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say it: SHAWRT-kayk
shortcake is a noun meaning "very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream". It is pronounced /ˈʃɔɹtˌkeɪk/ — SHAWRT-kayk. It carries one recorded sense.
very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shortcake come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.