Cake Definition
kāk
caked, cakes, caking
noun
cakes
A mixture of flour, eggs, milk, sugar, etc. baked as in a loaf and often covered with icing.
Webster's New World
A small, flat mass of dough or batter, or of some hashed food, that is baked or fried.
Webster's New World
A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake that is baked or fried.
American Heritage
A solid, shaped mass, as of soap or ice.
Webster's New World
A hard crust or deposit.
Webster's New World
verb
caked, cakes, caking
To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter.
A miner whose face was caked with soot.
American Heritage
To form into a hard mass or a crust; solidify or encrust.
Webster's New World
idiom
take the cake
- to be the prime example of a type, quality, etc.
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cake
Origin of Cake
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From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog (“ball-shaped object”) (compare Romanian gogoașă (“doughnut”) and gogă (“walnut, nut”); Lithuanian gúoge (“head of cabbage”). Related to cookie.
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old Norse kaka
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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