FRIEDCAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does friedcake mean? 

• FRIEDCAKE (noun)
  The noun FRIEDCAKE has 1 sense:

1. small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat

  Familiarity information: FRIEDCAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRIEDCAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small cake in the form of a ring or twist or ball or strip fried in deep fat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("friedcake" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "friedcake"):

doughboy (a rounded lump of dough that is deep-fried and served as hot bread)

donut; doughnut; sinker (a small ring-shaped friedcake)

cruller; twister (small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts)

beignet; French fritter (a deep-fried, yeast-raised doughnut dusted with confectioners' sugar)

fritter (small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables)