cake

English Online Dictionary. What means cake‎? What does cake mean?

English

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kāk, IPA^(key): /keɪk/, [ˈk̟ʰeɪ̯k̚]
• Rhymes: -eɪk

Noun

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

2. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

   Synonym: gateau

3. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

4. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

5. A block of any various dense materials.

   Synonym: block
6. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

   Synonyms: piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

7. (slang) Money.
8. 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.

9. (slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

10. (pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.

Usage notes

• 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 (Nilla 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

Descendants

From the plural cakes:

Translations

See also

• Category:Cakes and pastries

Verb

cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)

1. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

   Synonyms: crust, encrust

2. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
3. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Derived terms

• anticaking
• cake up

Translations

Further reading

• cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• ecka, akçe, EAKC, ace K

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Compare to North Moluccan Malay ceké (“to strangle, to choke, to eat (greedily)”).

Verb

cake

1. (angry register) to eat

   Synonym: makang

   Kalu ale su cake jang bicara lai! ― Do not speak when you're eating!

References

• D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998) Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎^[1], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake. Doublet of kaak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keːk/
• Hyphenation: cake
• Rhymes: -eːk

Noun

cake m (plural cakes, diminutive cakeje n)

1. pound cake

Derived terms

• arretjescake
• boerencake
• cakeblik
• cakevorm
• chocoladecake

Related terms

• cupcake

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *sake (compare with Maori eke, Samoan eʻe, Tongan heka), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay (“to ride on something”) (compare with Ilocano sakáy (“to ride, to mound”) and Tagalog sakáy (“passenger, load”)).

Adverb

cake

1. up

References

• Gatty, Ronald (2009) “cake”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 39
• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “heke”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɛk/

Noun

cake m (plural cakes)

1. fruitcake (containing rum)
2. 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)

Derived terms

• tronche de cake

Descendants

• → Greek: κεκ (kek)

Further reading

• “cake”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kake, caake, cayk

Etymology

From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːk(ə)/

Noun

cake (plural cakes)

1. A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):
   1. (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
   2. (Christianity, rare) A communion wafer.
2. (rare) A lump, boil, or ball.

Derived terms

• pancake

Descendants

• English: cake (see there for further descendants)
• Geordie English: kyek
• Scots: cake, cyaak, kyaak
• Yola: caake, kaake
• → Irish: cáca

References

• “cāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka. Doublet of queque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkeik/ [ˈkei̯k]
• Rhymes: -eik

Noun

cake m (plural cakes)

1. cake; fruitcake

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Related terms

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ték(ʷ)os.

Noun

cake ?

1. river

References

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN