Cake

Pronunciation

• enPR: kāk, IPA: /keɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

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.

Full definition of cake

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.an oatmeal cakea johnnycake
3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.buckwheat cakes
4. A block of any of various dense materials.a cake of soapa cake of sand
• DrydenCakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
5. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
6. (slang) Money.

Usage notes

In British usage, a biscuit is distinct from a cake; the former is generally hard but becomes soft when stale, whereas the latter is generally soft but becomes hard when stale.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (dessert) gâteau
• (block) block
• (easy task) see piece of cake

Verb

1. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.His shoes are caked with mud.
2. To form into a cake, or mass.

Synonyms

• (coat with a crust of material) crust, encrust

Verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.

Anagrams

• akçe