Noun: plumcake
| Singular | plumcake |
| Plural | plumcakes |
Sample Sentences
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Ellen's mamma was going out to pay a visit, but she left the children a large piece of rich plumcake to divide between them, that they might play at making feasts. [1833, Parley's Magazine, volume 1, page 23:]
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She decided to buy some plumcake but Downes's plumcake had not enough almond icing on top of it so she went over to a shop in Henry Street. [1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Clay”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 124:]
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He was barely 100 m up and directly below him a merchant was displaying some lovely fresh plumcakes. The display was naturally not improved by the sand. [1979, New Scientist, volume 84, numbers 1186–1187, page 26:]
Nouns inflected like plumcake
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From plum + cake.
Verbs referencing "plumcake"
Italian Nouns
plumcake, Romanian Nouns
plumcheic.