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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda..
Use shortcake when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shortcake means A sweet cake or biscuit (crumbly leavened bread) typically made with flour, sugar, salt, butter, milk or cream, and sometimes eggs, and leavened with baking powder or baking soda..
Common synonyms include shortbread.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use shortcake where its definition matches the intended context.
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