swiss roll

1. 1.

   thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake

   Synonymsjellyroll

   Broadersponge cake

Questions about swiss roll

What does swiss roll mean?

swiss roll means "thin sheet of sponge cake spread with jelly and then rolled up to make a cylindrical cake".

What is another word for swiss roll?

Close synonyms include jellyroll. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swiss roll a common word?

swiss roll is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.