mooncake
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Definition of mooncake
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A rich, dense Chinese pastry traditionally filled with lotus seed paste and nowadays with a variety of other fillings, usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival (on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar; early September to early October).
“Mei-kwei 玫丨 [i.e., 玫瑰] name of a pearl; also of a round cake, called the moon-cake, eaten at the harvest moon; […]”
“[M]aybe his mother has promised him a mango or a moon-cake if he would be good; […]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From moon + cake, a calque of Mandarin 月餅 /月饼 (yuèbíng, “mooncake”), from 月 (yuè, “moon”) + 餅 /饼 (bíng, “pastry; biscuit, cookie”), probably because the pastry’s traditional round shape resembles the full moon visible during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Words you can make from mooncake
101 playable · top: COMAKE (14 pts)
Best play comake 14 points5-letter words
6 words4-letter words
45 words- MACK 12 pts
- MOCK 12 pts
- AMOK 10 pts
- CAKE 10 pts
- COKE 10 pts
- CONK 10 pts
- COOK 10 pts
- KAME 10 pts
- MAKE 10 pts
- MAKO 10 pts
- MOKE 10 pts
- MONK 10 pts
- MOOK 10 pts
- NECK 10 pts
- NOCK 10 pts
- ACME 8 pts
- CAME 8 pts
- CAMO 8 pts
- COMA 8 pts
- COME 8 pts
- KANE 8 pts
- KAON 8 pts
- KENO 8 pts
- KOAN 8 pts
- MACE 8 pts
- NOOK 8 pts
- ACNE 6 pts
- AMEN 6 pts
- CANE 6 pts
- CONE 6 pts
- COON 6 pts
- MANE 6 pts
- MANO 6 pts
- MEAN 6 pts
- MENO 6 pts
- MOAN 6 pts
- MONO 6 pts
- MOON 6 pts
- NAME 6 pts
- NEMA 6 pts
- NOMA 6 pts
- NOME 6 pts
- OMEN 6 pts
- ONCE 6 pts
- AEON 4 pts
3-letter words
33 words- ACK 9 pts
- CAM 7 pts
- KAE 7 pts
- KEA 7 pts
- KEN 7 pts
- KOA 7 pts
- MAC 7 pts
- MOC 7 pts
- OAK 7 pts
- OKA 7 pts
- OKE 7 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- CAN 5 pts
- CON 5 pts
- COO 5 pts
- ECO 5 pts
- EMO 5 pts
- MAE 5 pts
- MAN 5 pts
- MEN 5 pts
- MOA 5 pts
- MON 5 pts
- MOO 5 pts
- NAM 5 pts
- NOM 5 pts
- OCA 5 pts
- OMA 5 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- EON 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- NOO 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
- ONO 3 pts
2-letter words
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