Etymology

clapcake

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Today it means: Oatmeal cake or bread beaten until it is thin. Full definition →

English cake ← Middle English cake ← Old Norse kaka
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The story

  1. Englishclap
  2. Proto-Germanic*kakǭ
  3. Old Norsekaka
  4. Middle Englishcake
  5. Englishcake
  6. English todayclapcake

From clap + cake.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.