pake

See also: pakë, pakę, pàke, pāke, and Pākē

English

Etymology

Blend of pie +‎ cake.

Noun

pake (plural pakes)

1. (informal) Synonym of piecake.
   • 2014 July 1, Nancy Stohs, “Bake a pie in a cake to make a ‘pake,’ because why not?”, in The Brownsville Herald, volume 122, number 363, page C2:

     Cherry pie baked inside a chocolate cake, for a dandy Black Forest pake.

   • 2014 November 21, The Garden Island, section “TGIFR!DAY” (volume 2, number 46), page 5:

     Pie specials include pumpkin, pumpkin crunch, pumpkin pecan, pumpkin haupia, gluten-free pumpkin pake (cake meets pie), pumpkin pake, cranberry walnut pudding, chocolate chip pecan and rum pecan.

   • 2015 November 18, Patricia Corrigan, “Sweet! St. Louis thrives with pies”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 68, number 44, page 1B:

     We honor foot-high pie, oatmeal pecan pie, “pake” (that’s a pie baked inside a cake), apple green chili pecan pie, levee-high pie and even gooey butter cake pie.

Indonesian

Verb

pake

1. Alternative form of pakai

Middle English

Noun

pake

1. Alternative form of pak

Swahili

Adjective

pake

1. Pa class inflected form of -ake.

West Frisian

Etymology

Possibly abbreviation of baby talk word papa with diminutive suffix -ke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paːkə/

Noun

pake c (plural paken, diminutive paakje)

1. grandpa, grandfather

   Coordinate term: beppe

2. old man

Derived terms

• pakesizzer

Further reading

• “pake”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ke/

Adverb

pake

1. an intensifier: very, really, etc.

   wolot nao ma imaulu pake ― that sea there is very deep

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[1], Pacific linguistics