farl

American  

[fahrl] / fɑrl /

Or farle

noun

Scot.

1. a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.

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farl British  

/ fɑːl /

noun

1. a thin cake of oatmeal, often triangular in shape

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Etymology

Origin of farl

1715–25; contraction of fardel a three-cornered cake, originally, the 4th part of a round cake ( Middle English ferdell, representing Old English fēortha dǣl fourth part)

Example Sentences

“Incantata,” which appears in Muldoon’s 1994 collection “The Annals of Chile,” is an elegy to his partner, Mary Farl Powers, a noted printmaker who died two years earlier.

From New York Times

In goes the birdie putt, and the early Open leaderboard has a breakfast flavour so Irish it could be served with a soda farl.

From The Guardian

Bread Ahead bakery in London offers a Great British Baking Workshop, which gives lessons in potato farl from Northern Ireland and fruit and tea loaf from Wales.

From New York Times

Think of how much more delicious a thin potato farl or an oval pitta is when warmed on a griddle.

From The Guardian

Shortbread's defeated Northern Irish cousin, Soda Farl Breakfasting Gable End Decorating Fiver, is kidding on he doesn't care about football, instead talking loudly about golf while hastily covering his posters of Iain Dowie and Colin Clarke with snaps of Rory and G-Mac.

From The Guardian