English Explanatory Dictionary

cake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
  2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
  3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
  4. A block of any various dense materials.
  5. Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
  6. Money.
  7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
  8. A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.
  9. A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
  10. A foolish person.
verb
  1. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
  2. To form into a cake, or mass.
  3. Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Pronunciation

kāk /keɪk/ [ˈk̟ʰeɪ̯k̚] en-us-cake.ogg En-uk-cake.ogg

Word forms

cake cakes caking caked

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. 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 (pastry).

Synonyms

cake gateau pastry block piece of cake bagatelle waltz breeze cake and gingerbread cakewalk child's play cinch doddle doss duck soup easy pickings gimme layup low-hanging fruit no-brainer open and shut case picnic piece of piss plain sailing plane sailing slam dunk snap walk in the park walkover 'tocks arse arse cheeks ass ass cheeks back backside batty behind blessed assurance booty botty bottom bum bum cheeks buns butt butt cheeks buttocks caboose cheeks derriere dicky fanny fourth point of contact gluteus maximus glutes gooseberry-grinder gyatt heinie hiney

Related words

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

Derived words

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 baby cake baked in the cake banana cake Banbury cake barm cake barmcake bastable cake Battenberg cake battercake batter-cake beancake bean-cake bean cake beauty cake beefcake birthday cake black cake black forest cake Black Joe cake blackout cake bread cake breadcake bridecake bride-cake Brooklyn blackout cake bubble cake buckwheat cake bundt cake butter cake butterfly cake cakeage cake and arse party cake-and-arse party cake and gingerbread cake and wine cakebaker cake ball cake bar cakebox cake boy cake-bread cakecrumb cake crumbs cake day cake-eater cakefetti
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