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FRIEDCAKE
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I. (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)
