tipsy cake

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   a trifle soaked in wine and decorated with almonds and candied fruit

   Broadertrifle

   United Kingdom

Questions about tipsy cake

What does tipsy cake mean?

tipsy cake means "a trifle soaked in wine and decorated with almonds and candied fruit".

Is tipsy cake a common word?

tipsy cake 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.