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upside-down cake

upside-down cake
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Definitions of upside-down cake words

  • noun upside-down cake a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top. 1
  • noun upside-down cake a sponge cake baked with sliced fruit at the bottom, then inverted before serving 0
  • noun upside-down cake a cake baked with a bottom layer of fruit and turned upside down before serving 0
  • noun upside-down cake A fruit-based cake that is inverted after cooking. 0

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Origin of upside-down cake

First appearance:

before 1920
One of the 12% newest English words
An Americanism dating back to 1920-25

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Parts of speech for Upside-down cake

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

upside-down cake popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 2% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.
According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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