cake
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Etymology
Etymology tree
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- Synonym: gateau
- 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.
- Synonym: block
- a cake of soap
- a cake of sand
- 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.
- (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
- Synonyms: piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
- (slang) Money.
- Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
- 2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018
- "It looks like the cake [and eat it] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk.
- 2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018
- (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
- Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!
- (pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
Usage notes
- In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as cookies, while in the UK, typically only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
- Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like in this image (saltine crackers) are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like in this image (Nilla Wafers) and this image (wafer sticks) are wafers.
- Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.
Derived terms
- 7 Up cake
- ague-cake
- Alabama Lane cake
- angel cake
- angel food cake
- angel-food cake
- angel's-food cake
- angel's food cake
- apple cake
- applesauce cake
- ash-cake
- ashcake
- ash cake
- ash-heap-cake
- baked in the cake
- banana cake
- Banbury cake
- barmcake
- barm cake
- bastable cake
- Battenberg cake
- batter-cake
- battercake
- beancake, bean-cake, bean cake
- beefcake
- birthday cake
- black cake
- Black Forest cake
- Black Joe cake
- blackout cake
- breadcake
- bread cake
- bride-cake
- bridecake
- Brooklyn Blackout cake
- Brooklyn blackout cake
- bubble cake
- buckwheat cake
- bundt cake
- butterfly cake
- cakeage
- cake and wine
- cakebaker
- cake ball
- cake bar
- cakebox
- cake boy
- cake-bread
- cakecrumb
- cake crumbs
- cake-eater
- cake fork
- cakeful
- cake-fumbler
- cakehole
- cakehouse
- cake-house
- cakeism
- cakeist
- cakeless
- cakelet
- cake lifter
- cakelike
- cakemaker
- cakemaking
- cakeman
- cake-meal
- cake mix
- cake mold
- cake number
- cakepan
- cake plate
- cake-pop
- cake pop
- caker
- cake ring
- cakery
- cake saffron
- cakes and ale
- cakes and cheese
- cake server
- cakeshop
- cake shop
- cakesicle
- cake-slice
- cake slice
- cake smash
- cakestand
- cake tin
- cakette
- cake-urchin
- cake urchin
- cakewalk
- cake-walk
- cake walk
- cakewalker
- cakewards
- cakewoman
- caking
- caky
- carcake
- carrot cake
- cattle cake
- cattle-cake
- cheesecake
- cherry cake
- cherry on the cake
- chess cake
- chiffon cake
- chimney cake
- chocolate cake
- chocolate fudge cake
- chocolate sponge cake
- Chorley cake
- Christmas cake
- ciba cake
- clam cake
- clapcake
- coffee and cake
- coffee cake
- coffeecake
- corn-cake
- corncake
- cotton-cake
- crab cake
- crazy cake
- cream cake
- crumb cake
- crumb cake
- crum cake
- cupcake
- cut cake
- dairy cake
- dead cake
- deadcake
- Depression cake
- desert fruit cake
- devil's-food cake
- devil's food cake
- diaper cake
- dirt cake
- Doberge cake
- doberge cake
- Dolly Varden cake
- donut cake
- dripping cake
- drop-cake
- drop cake
- dumb cake
- dump cake
- Dundee cake
- easy as cake
- eat one's cake and have it too
- Eccles cake
- epiphany cake
- every cake has its fellow
- every cake has its make
- every cake has its mate
- fair cake-cutting
- fairy cake
- fern cake
- filter cake
- fishcake
- fish cake
- fish-cake
- flannel cake
- flat cake
- friedcake
- frosting on the cake
- fruit cake
- fruitcake
- fruit-cake
- fuckcake
- fudge cake
- funnel cake
- Genoa cake
- German chocolate cake
- go like hot cakes
- gooey butter cake
- grater cake
- green-tea cake
- green tea cake
- griddle cake
- griddle-cake
- groom's cake
- guess cake
- gur cake
- have one's cake and eat it
- have one's cake and eat it too
- haver-cake
- heart-cake
- heavy cake
- hevva cake
- hoecake
- honeycake
- hot cake
- hot milk cake
- hot-milk cake
- icebox cake
- icing on the cake
- illusion cake
- Jaffa cake
- Japanese cake
- jelly cake
- Johnny cake
- johnny cake
- jonny cake
- journey-cake
- Kendal mint cake
- Kiev cake
- King Alfred's cake (Daldinia concentrica)
- king cake
- king's cake
- kings' cake
- kitchen cake
- knead-cake
- kokosh cake
- Lady Baltimore cake
- Land of Cakes
- Lane cake
- lardy cake
- lava cake
- layer cake
- layer-cake
- layer-cake federalism
- layer cake federalism
- linseed cake
- Lord Baltimore cake
- Madeira cake
- maids of honour cake
- mangia-cake
- mangia cake
- marble cake
- marble-cake federalism
- marble cake federalism
- matrimonial cake
- meatcake
- molten lava cake
- moon cake
- moon-cake
- mooncake
- mothering-cake
- mud cake
- mug cake
- national cake
- neem cake
- nubcake
- nutcake
- nutty as a fruit cake
- oatcake
- oatmeal cake
- oil cake
- oilcake
- oilseed cake
- one's cake is dough
- opera cake
- oyster cake
- pake
- pancake
- parliament cake
- parliament-cake
- pat-a-cake
- patty cake
- patty-cake
- pea-cake
- pea cake
- piecake
- piecaken
- piece of cake
- pinch cake
- pineapple cake
- placenta cake
- plumcake
- plum-cake
- pomfret cake
- pomfret-cake
- Pontefract cake
- poor man's cake
- pop out cake
- pop-out cake
- potato cake
- potcake
- pound cake
- poundcake
- press cake
- princess cake
- prize cake
- queen-cake
- queen cake
- queen's cake
- radish cake
- raindrop cake
- rape cake
- rape-cake
- rat cake
- red velvet cake
- red-velvet cake
- rice cake
- ring-cake
- rock cake
- rose-cake
- rout-cake
- rout cake
- rum cake
- saffron cake
- salt cake
- salt-cake
- sandwich cake
- Savoy cake
- scripture cake
- seblet cake
- seed-cake
- seedcake
- seed cake
- sell like hot cakes
- seven-layer cake
- Shawnee cake
- shear-cake
- sheath cake
- sheet cake
- shortcake
- Shrewsbury cake
- Shrove-cake
- simnel cake
- singing cake
- slab cake
- slice of the cake
- smash cake
- Smith Island cake
- soul cake
- soul-cake
- soycake
- space cake
- spice-cake
- spit cake
- sponge cake
- stottie cake
- stotty cake
- stripper cake
- suet cake
- sugee cake
- sweetheart cake
- take the cake
- taro cake
- tattie cake
- tatty cake
- teacake
- tea-cake
- tharcake
- tharf-cake
- the cake is a lie
- three kings' cake
- three-milk cake
- tipsy cake
- tough-cake
- Tunis cake
- turnip cake
- Twelfth-cake
- Twelfth cake
- twelfth day cake
- Twelfth-night cake
- uncake
- upside-down cake
- urinal cake
- Victorian sponge cake
- wacky cake
- war cake
- wastel cake
- wedding-cake
- wedding cake
- Welsh cake
- wine cake
- yam cake
- yellowcake
- yellow cake
- Yule cake
- zebra cake
Descendants
- Tok Pisin: kek
- → Albanian: kek
- → Arabic: كَيْك (kayk)
- → Assamese: কে’ক (këk)
- → Atong (India): kek
- → Bengali: কেক (kek)
- →⇒ Burmese: ကိတ်မုန့် (kitmun.)
- → Cantonese: 𠽤 (gik1)
- → Cebuano: keyk
- → Dhivehi: ކޭކު (kēku)
- → Dutch: kaak (spelling pronunciation), cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)
- → Fijian: keke
- → Fiji Hindi: kek
- → French: cake
- → Greek: κεκ (kek)
- → Greek: κέικ (kéik)
- → Gujarati: કેક (kek)
- → Gulf Arabic: كيكة (kēka)
- → Hausa: kyât
- → Hijazi Arabic: كيكة (kēka)
- → Hindi: केक (kek)
- → Iban: kek
- → Indonesian: keik
- → Japanese: ケーキ (kēki)
- → Korean: 케익 (keik), 케이크 (keikeu)
- → Lao: ເຄັກ (khek)
- → Macanese: queique
- → Malay: kek
- → Malayalam: കേക്ക് (kēkkŭ)
- → Maori: keke
- → Nauruan: keik
- → Persian: کِیک／کیک (keyk/kêk)
- → Portuguese: queque
- → Romanian: chec
- → Russian: кек (kek)
- → Spanish: queique, queque, keke; cake
- → Swahili: keki
- → Swazi: líkhékhe
- → Tagalog: keyk, keik
- → Thai: เค้ก (kéek)
- → Urak Lawoi': เคก (khëk)
- → Tongan: keke
- → Turkish: kek
- → Urdu: کیک (kek)
- → Volapük: kek
- → Xhosa: íkéki, ikeyiki
- → Yoruba: kéèkì
- → Zazaki: kek
- → Zulu: îkhékhe
From the plural cakes:
- → Danish: kiks, (older) keks
- → German: Keks, (obsolete) Cakes
- → Greek: κέικς (kéiks)
- → Norwegian:
- → Swedish: kex, käx (dated)
- → Finnish: keksi
Translations
type of sweet dessert
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small mass of baked dough
thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter
block of dense material
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trivially easy task or responsibility — see piece of cake
multi-shot fireworks assembly
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See also
See also
- biscuit
- Black Forest gâteau
- brownie
- bun
- cruller
- crumpet
- dessert
- donut
- doughnut
- éclair
- flapjack
- frangipane
- gâteau
- gugelhupf
- jumbal
- koeksister
- kruller
- kuchen
- kugelhopf
- kugelhupf
- ladyfinger
- lamington
- Linzertorte
- madeleine
- muffin
- parkin
- pastry
- patisserie
- petit four
- pie
- pikelet
- pudding
- rum baba
- Sally Lunn
- scone
- sponge
- Swiss roll
- tart
- torte
- Victoria sponge
- yumyum
Verb
cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)
- (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
- (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
- (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- 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.
Derived terms
Translations
to coat with a crust
to form into a cake or mass
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to dry out and become hard
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Further reading
cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Category:cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Etymology
Unknown.
Verb
cake
- (angry register) to eat
- Synonym: makang
- Kalu ale su cake jang bicara lai! ― Do not speak when you're eating!
References
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cake m (plural cakes, diminutive cakeje n)
Derived terms
- arretjescake
- boerencake
- cakeblik
- cakevorm
Related terms
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *sake (compare with Maori eke, Samoan eʻe, Tongan heka), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay (“to ride on something”) (compare with Ilocano sakáy (“to ride, to mound”) and Tagalog sakáy (“passenger, load”)).
Adverb
cake
References
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
cake m (plural cakes)
- fruitcake (containing rum)
- quick bread (a smallish loaf-shaped baked good which may be sweet like an English cake or salty and with bits of meat. See insert)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Greek: κεκ (kek)
Further reading
- “cake”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.
Pronunciation
Noun
cake (plural cakes)
- A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):
- (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
- (Christianity, rare) A communion wafer.
- (rare) A lump, boil, or ball.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “cāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka. Doublet of queque.
Pronunciation
Noun
cake m (plural cakes)
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Related terms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ték(ʷ)os.
Noun
cake ?
References
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN