cake
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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 Northern Kurdish gog (“ball”); Romanian gogoașă (“doughnut”) and gogă (“walnut, nut”); Lithuanian gúoge (“head of cabbage”)). Related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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 of various dense materials.
- Synonym: block
- a cake of soap
- a cake of sand
- 1697, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in Virgil; John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- 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!
Usage notes[edit]
- 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 (nila 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[edit]
- ague-cake
- angel cake
- angel food cake
- ash-cake
- ashcake
- baked in the cake
- Banbury cake
- barm cake
- bastable cake
- Battenberg cake
- batter-cake
- battercake
- beancake, bean-cake, bean cake
- beefcake
- birthday cake
- bridecake
- bundt cake
- cake bar
- cake-bread
- cake-eater
- cake-fumbler
- cakehole
- cake-house
- cakelet
- cake-meal
- cake mix
- cake saffron
- cakes and ale
- cakes and cheese
- cake slice
- cake tin
- cake-urchin
- cakewalk
- cakewalker
- caking
- caky
- carcake
- carrot cake
- cattle-cake
- cheesecake
- cherry cake
- chocolate cake
- chocolate fudge cake
- chocolate sponge cake
- Christmas cake
- coffee cake
- coffeecake
- corn-cake
- cotton-cake
- cream cake
- cupcake
- devil's food cake
- Dundee cake
- Eccles cake
- every cake has its fellow
- every cake has its make
- every cake has its mate
- fairy cake
- fish cake
- fishcake
- flannel cake
- friedcake
- fruitcake
- fudge cake
- go like hot cakes
- griddle-cake
- have one's cake and eat it too
- haver-cake
- heart-cake
- hoecake
- icing on the cake
- Johnny cake
- johnny cake
- journey-cake
- King Alfred's cake (Daldinia concentrica)
- king cake
- knead-cake
- Land of Cakes
- lardy cake
- layer cake
- linseed cake
- Madeira cake
- mangia-cake
- marble cake
- national cake
- nutcake
- oatcake
- oilcake
- one's cake is dough
- Pan-Cake
- pancake
- parliament-cake
- pat-a-cake
- patty-cake
- piece of cake
- plum-cake
- pomfret-cake
- Pontefract cake
- pop out cake
- pound cake
- queen cake
- rape-cake
- rice cake
- rock cake
- rose-cake
- rout-cake
- saffron cake
- salt-cake
- seed-cake
- seedcake
- sell like hot cakes
- Shawnee cake
- sheet cake
- shortcake
- simnel cake
- singing cake
- soul-cake
- spice-cake
- sponge cake
- take the cake
- teacake
- tharf-cake
- the cake is a lie
- tipsy cake
- Twelfth-cake
- Twelfth-night cake
- upside-down cake
- Victorian sponge cake
- wedding cake
- yellowcake
Descendants[edit]
- → Assamese: কে’ক (këk)
- → Dutch: kaak (spelling pronunciation), cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)
- → French: cake
- → Gulf Arabic: كيك (kēk)
- → Hijazi Arabic: كيكة (kēka)
- → Japanese: ケーキ (kēki)
- → Korean: 케이크 (keikeu)
- → Nauruan: keik
- → Portuguese: queque
- → Russian: кек (kek)
- → Spanish: queque
- → Fiji Hindi: kek
- → Zulu: ikhekhe
From the plural cakes:
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Verb[edit]
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.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
- 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.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)
Translations[edit]
Further reading[edit]
cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cake” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, 1st edition, 2nd printing (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans, page 458.
Ambonese Malay[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unknown.
Verb[edit]
cake
- (angry register) to eat
- Kalu ale su cake jang bicara lai! ― Do not speak when you're eating!
- Synonym: makang
References[edit]
- D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia[2], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
cake m (plural cakes, diminutive cakeje n)
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Fijian[edit]
Adverb[edit]
cake
French[edit]

Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
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).
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Further reading[edit]
- “cake”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “cāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Unadapted borrowing from English cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cake m (plural cakes)
Tocharian B[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *ték(ʷ)os.
Noun[edit]
cake ?
References[edit]
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN
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