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cake

Pronunciation: /keɪk/

The English word “cake” has 12 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
  3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
  4. A block of any various dense materials.
  5. Synonym of money.
  6. Synonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full.
  7. A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
  8. Synonym of pie, the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided into parts.
  9. A foolish person.

verb

  1. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
  2. To form into a cake, or mass.
  3. Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Etymology

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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