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Cake

//keɪk// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. countable, uncountable

    "On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her."

  2. 2
    a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) wordnet
  3. 3
    A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. countable, uncountable

    "an oatmeal cake"

  4. 4
    food made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat, typically cooked in an oven wordnet
  5. 5
    A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. countable, uncountable

    "buckwheat cakes"

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  1. 6
    small flat mass of chopped or ground food wordnet
  2. 7
    A block of any various dense materials. countable, uncountable

    "a cake of soap"

  3. 8
    Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang, uncountable

    "Now that I escape, sleepwalk awake / Those who could relate know the world ain't cake"

  4. 9
    Money. countable, slang, uncountable
  5. 10
    Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too. countable, uncountable

    ""It looks like the cake [and eat it] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk."

  6. 11
    A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full. countable, slang, uncountable

    "Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake."

  7. 12
    A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse. countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    A foolish person. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable

    ""The Lord Mayor can say tart things," said Hobler to a scavenger. "Yes," replied the dustman, "he does say things that are tart, which is not to be wondered at when we know him to be a regular cake.""

Verb
  1. 1
    Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. transitive

    "His shoes are caked with mud."

  2. 2
    form a coat over wordnet
  3. 3
    To form into a cake, or mass. transitive
  4. 4
    Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard. intransitive

    "Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake English cake From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).

Etymology 2

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake English cake From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).

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