Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A type of biscuit (cookie), popular in Britain, traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter and three parts flour.

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More definitions
  • very rich thick butter cookie

Examples

3 sentences
  1. We have to save space for the shortbread cookies.

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  2. Daniel makes shortbreads.

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  3. We stuffed ourselves with nougat and shortbread cookies during Christmas Holidays.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
biscuit:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
biscuit:

Forms

plural: shortbreads
Singularshortbread
Pluralshortbreads

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

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