| 单词 | pepper cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspepper cake pepper cake n. [after early modern Dutch peper-koeck (in Middle Dutch as peperkoeke; Dutch peperkoek); compare e.g. Middle Low German pēperkōke, German Pfefferkuchen (15th cent. as pfefferkuoche), and similar compounds in other Germanic languages] chiefly English regional (northern) a spicy kind of gingerbread. ΚΠ 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een peper-koeck, a Pepper-cake, or a Spice-cake. 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Pepper-gingerbread, what is now called spice-gingerbread; and in the north pepper-cake. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 377 All comers to the house are invited to partake of the pepper-cake and cheese. 1993 Financial Times (Nexis) 2 Jan. (Cookery section) 9 Old cake recipes like the one which follows are often known as pepper cake, rather than ginger cake. < as lemmas |
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