English

havercake

haver + cake

A compound of haver + cake

Scots haiver ‘to haver, talk in a foolish or trivial…’

English haver

Proto-Germanic *kakǭ ‘cake’

Old Norse kaka ‘cake’

Middle English cake

English cake

Today it means

noun Synonym of oatcake.

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