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means A light sweet bun or small cake traditionally served toasted with butter alongside a cup of tea.

from Straightforward compound of 'tea' and 'cake,' first used in English for small cakes or buns meant to accompany the afternoon tea ritual that took hold in Britain. The phrase traveled with British habits but not with a fixed recipe — so as tea customs diverged across regions and then crossed the Atlantic, the thing called 'tea cake' drifted into different foods entirely, while the name stayed put.