pake

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: PAKE, pakë, pakę, pàke, pāke, and Pākē

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Blend of pie +‎ cake.

Noun

[edit]

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.

Anagrams

[edit]

Indonesian

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

pake

  1. Alternative form of pakai

Middle English

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

pake

  1. Alternative form of pak

Swahili

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

pake

  1. Pa class inflected form of -ake.

West Frisian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

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

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

pake c (plural paken, diminutive paakje)

  1. grandpa, grandfather
    Coordinate term: beppe
  2. old man

Derived terms

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]
  • pake”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

West Makian

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adverb

[edit]

pake

  1. an intensifier: very, really, etc.
    wolot nao ma imaulu pakethat sea there is very deep

References

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