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sponge-cake
[sponge n.1]
A very light sweet cake made with flour, eggs, and sugar. Also fig.
1808Jane Austen Let. 15 June (1952) 191 You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me. 1843Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 269 A hot jelly, and one modest sponge cake. 1860All Year Round No. 48. 514, I cannot dine on stale sponge-cakes that turn to sand in the mouth. 1874Burnand My Time 97 He returned..with a bottle of lemonade..and two sponge-cakes in a bag. 1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. xiv. 364 Naturalistic optimism is mere syllabub and flattery and sponge-cake in comparison. 1909W. S. Churchill Let. 15 Sept. in R. S. Churchill Winston S. Churchill (1969) II. Compan. ii. xii. 911 It appears to me to belong to the whipped cream and sponge cake style of painting.
attrib.1846A. Soyer Cookery 565 Have buttered a large sponge-cake mould. 1883‘Annie Thomas’ Mod. Housewife 9 Some nice soup and a spongecake-pudding.
Hence ˈsponge-cakey a.
1858Mrs. Gaskell Let. 1 Oct. (1966) 896 Some little sponge cakey puddings. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 15, I flung my sexual emotions into gear by imagining sponge-cakey vulvas. |