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n. - Any of various small pastries or cookies often served with a hot beverage; Flat semisweet cookie or biscuit usually served with a hot beverage.

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  • I obviously don't know a teacake from a snowball, but neither does the Guardian.
  • I may have a new challenge - finding a teacake pan .........
  • Sod bloody all on a toasted teacake was what she got for the effort.
  • 'Fair fa' coconut sprinkled face,/Great chieftain o the teacake-race!
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