fat-cake

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• Cake

  ·vi To cackle as a goose. II. Cake ·vi To form into a cake, or mass. III. Cake ·noun A thin wafer-...

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• Cake

  Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• cake, or cakey

  A foolish fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Fat

  ·superl Abounding with fat. II. Fat ·vi To grow fat, plump, and fleshy. III. Fat ·noun A large tub...

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• Fat

  (Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• fat

  The last landed, inned, or stowed, of any sort of merchandise: so called by the water-side porters, ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fat

  , or broad. If the tressing in or tuck of a ship's quarter under water hangs deep, or is overfull,...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Fat

  i.e. VAT, the word employed in the Authorized Version to translate the Hebrew term yekeb, in (Joel 2...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Genoa cake

  ·add. ·- A rich glazed cake, with almonds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant...

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• Mill-cake

  ·noun The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be sub...

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• Press cake

  ·add. ·- A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compr...

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• Rout cake

  ·add. ·- A kind of rich sweet cake made for routs, or evening parties. ...

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• Tough-cake

  ·noun ·see Tough-pitch (b). ...

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• Twelfth-cake

  ·noun An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night. ...

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• hoe-cake

  A cake of Indian meal, baked before the fire. In the interior parts of the country, where kitchen ut...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• johnny-cake

  A cake made of Indian meal mixed with milk or water. A New England Johnny-cake is invariably spread ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• haver-cake

  oat-cake. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• hopper-cake

  a seed-cake with plums in it, with which the farmers treat their servants when seed-time is finished...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• spice-cake

  plumb-cake. SPICE-GINGERBREAD does not imply plumbs, but gingerbread that is warm in the mouth. ...

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• cake-ice

  Ice formed in the early part of the season. ...

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• Fat-brained

  ·adj Dull of apprehension. ...

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• Fat-kidneyed

  ·adj Gross; lubberly. ...

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• Fat-wited

  ·adj Dull; stupid. ...

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• Otoba fat

  ·- A colorless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Myristica otoba, a species of nutmeg tre...

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• fat cull

  A rich fellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fat headed

  Stupid. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• fat-hen

  n. a kind of wild spinach.In England the name is applied to various plants of thickfoliage. 1847. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• mud-fat

  adj. fat as mud, very fat. 1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 142: «There's half th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• guile-fat

  or gale the vat in which the beer is wrought up. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• to have one's fat in the fire

  is to have one's plans frustrated. A vulgar expression borrowed from the vocabulary of the kitchen. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• as fat as a hen in the forehead

  A saying of a meagre person. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose