bridecake

noun

Etymology

From bride + cake.

  1. derived from *kakǭ
  2. derived from kaka
  3. inherited from cake
  4. compounded as bridecake — “bride + cake

Definitions

  1. Synonym of wedding cake.

    • This day my Julia thou must make For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake: Knead but the Dow, and it will be To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee: Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice, And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.
    • But when the day should come for sending a piece of bridecake and cards with ‘Mrs. Herbert’ on them, all these wrongs would be avenged!
    • Mr. Casaubon seemed even unconscious that trivialities existed, and never handed round that small-talk of heavy men which is as acceptable as stale bride-cake brought forth with an odor of cupboard.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bridecake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA