car|cake

car|cake
car|cake «KAHR KAYK», noun.
a small cake baked on a griddle and eaten on Shrove Tuesday in parts of Scotland.
[apparently < Old English caru care + Middle English cake cake]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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