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oatcake

oatcake

1 4.2
A thin, flat food that people make from oats and eat with butter or cheese
  • noun
  • /ˈoʊtˌkeɪk/
  • UK
translation icon : torta de avena
  • She always carries oatcakes in her backpack for a quick snack during hikes.
  • make oatcakes

Examples

  • They were a kind of Scottish oatcake mortared with treacle.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • I was left below, contemplating a plate of rather stale-looking oatcakes, while Dougal mounted the stair to the commander's sanctum.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • While having a picnic, we enjoyed some delicious oatcakes with cheese.

  • For breakfast, he spread peanut butter on an oatcake and topped it with banana slices.

How Sweet

cupcake
269 1.0
donut
  • US
134 1.0
muffin
295 1.0
scone
38 1.9
oatcake
  • UK
1 4.2

Surface Forms

oatcake singular
oatcakes plural

Morphology

oatcake = oat + cake (transparent) = oat + cake

The meaning is directly the combination of 'oat' + 'cake' (a cake made from oats), which learners can infer from the components.

Etymology

Oatcake is simply the two parts oat and cake, meaning 'oats' and 'cake'. So an oatcake is a cake made from oats, which is why it is still a thin, flat baked oat snack often eaten with butter, cheese, or with soup.