FRIEDCAKE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)