seedcake

See also: seed cake

English

Alternative forms

• seed-cake, seed cake

Etymology

From seed +‎ cake.

Noun

seedcake (countable and uncountable, plural seedcakes)

1. The residue of pressing oil from seeds.
2. A sweet cake or cookie containing aromatic seeds, such as caraway.
   • 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC; republished London: […] Robert Triphook, […], and William Sancho, […], 1810, →OCLC:

     Remember thou therefore, though I do it not,
     The seed-cake, the pasties, and furmenty pot

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[8]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     Softly she gave me in my mouth the seedcake warm and chewed. Mawkish pulp her mouth had mumbled sweetsour of her spittle. Joy: I ate it: joy.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “seedcake”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)