teacake

1. A baked good such as a cake or biscuit intended to be eaten with tea or at an afternoon tea.

   (Ireland, Southern England, UK)A flat, round bread bun, usually containing currants, sultanas or peel and often served toasted and buttered with tea.

   Rührkuchen

   flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with tea

2. (Cumbria, Northern England)A bread roll without fruit; a barm.

3. (Ireland, Scotland, UK)A snack consisting of shortbread or wafer topped with meringue or marshmallow, coated in chocolate.

4. (Southern US, US, especially)A traditional type of dense, large cookie, typically hard-baked, not particularly sweet, and with few extra fillings.

5. (US)A small delicate cake or pastry; a petit four.

6. (Australia)A sweet cake similar to pound cake, sometimes sprinkled with cinnamon and caster sugar, often served warm.

7. A cake flavoured with tea.

8. A cake flavoured with tea.

   (Ireland)A fruit cake similar to a barmbrack (but often without yeast) flavoured with tea and whiskey, especially associated with Halloween.

9. A brick of dried tea.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:teacake.

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