deadcake

The English word “deadcake” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

A small cake or cookie served at a funeral in Dutch-settled colonial New York, often inscribed with the initials of the deceased.

Calque of Dutch doodkoek (literally “death cake”), equivalent to dood + koek (English dead + cake).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “deadcake” there

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.