cake.
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
Meaning & usage
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
an oatmeal cake
a johnnycake
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
buckwheat cakes
A block of any various dense materials.
a cake of soap
a cake of sand
Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
Synonym of money.
Ellipsis of have one's cake and eat it too.
Synonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full.
Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
Synonym of pie, the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided into parts.
A foolish person.
Where this word comes from
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).
Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
His shoes are caked with mud.
To form into a cake, or mass.
Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
Where this word comes from
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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