cake

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English

Etymology 1

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 Persian کوکه Northern Kurdish gog (“ball”); Romanian gogoașă (“doughnut”) and gogă (“walnut, nut”); Lithuanian gúoge (“head of cabbage”)). Related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

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

   Synonym: gateau

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.

   buckwheat cakes

4. A block of any of various dense materials.

   Synonym: block

   • Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.

5. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

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

6. (slang) Money.
7. 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.

8. (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

   Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!

9. (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

• → Assamese: কে’ক (këk)
• → Cebuano: keyk
• → Dhivehi: ކޭކު‎ (kēku)
• → Dutch: kaak (spelling pronunciation), cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)
• → Fiji Hindi: kek
• → French: cake
• → Gulf Arabic: كيك‎ (kēk)
• → Hijazi Arabic: كيكة‎ (kēka)
• → Japanese: ケーキ (kēki)
• → Korean: 케이크 (keikeu)
• → Nauruan: keik
• → Portuguese: queque
• → Russian: кек (kek)
• → Spanish: queque
• → Swahili: keki
• → Tagalog: keyk
• → Yoruba: kéèkì
• → Zulu: ikhekhe

From the plural cakes:

• → Danish: kiks (older also keks)
  • → Faroese: keks
  • → Icelandic: kex
• → German: Keks
  • → Belarusian: кекс (kjeks)
  • → Polish: keks
    • → Kashubian: keks
    • → Vilamovian: kēks
  • → Russian: кекс (keks)
  • → Ukrainian: кекс (keks)
  • → Macedonian: кекс (keks)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: kȅks, ке̏кс
  • → Hungarian: keksz
• → Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjeks

  Nynorsk: kjeks

• → Swedish: kex
  • → Finnish: keksi

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

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

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

Translations

Further reading

• cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

Anagrams

• akçe

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Unknown.

Verb

cake

1. (angry register) to eat

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

   Synonym: makang

References

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake.

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

Related terms

• cupcake

Fijian

Adverb

cake

1. up

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

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)
• Scots: cake
• Yola: caake, kaake

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cake m (plural cakes)

1. cake; fruitcake

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