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short·cake  (shôrtkk)

n.

1. A dessert consisting of a biscuit or cake served with fruit and topped with cream.

2. The biscuit or cake made for this dessert.

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shortcake [ˈʃɔːtˌkeɪk]

n

1. (Cookery) a kind of shortbread made from a rich biscuit dough

2. (Cookery) a dessert made of layers of shortcake filled with fruit and cream

[from short (in the sense: crumbly)]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

shortcake - very short biscuit dough baked as individual biscuits or a round loaf; served with sweetened fruit and usually whipped cream baking-powder biscuit - leavened with baking powder

Translations

shortcake [ˈʃɔːtkeɪk] N

1. (Brit) especie de mantecada

2. (US) → torta f de frutas

shortcake [ˈʃɔː^rtkeɪk]

n (British) (= shortbread) → sablé m

(mainly US) (= dessert) strawberry shortcake → tarte f sablée aux fraises
short-change [ˌʃɔː^rtˈtʃeɪndʒ] vt

(in shop) [+ customer] → ne pas rendre assez à

(= treat unfairly) → être injuste envers
short-circuit [ˌʃɔː^rtˈsɜː^rkɪt]

n → court-circuit m

vt

(ELECTRICITY, ELECTRONICS) → court-circuiter

(fig) (= bypass) [+ process, system] → court-circuiter

vi → faire court-circuit

shortcake [ˈʃɔːtˌkeɪk] n (Am) torta di pasta frolla farcita con frutta e panna (Brit) → frollino

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shortcake [ˈʃɔːtˌkeɪk] n (Am) torta di pasta frolla farcita con frutta e panna (Brit) → frollino