Cake

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.3.3.1 Translations to be checked 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Synonyms 1.5 See also 2 Fijian 2.1 Adverb 3 French 3.1 Noun

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• kāk, /keɪk/, /keIk/
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Noun

Cake (plural Cakes)

1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, eggs, and baked in an oven.
2. A block of any of various dense materials.

   A cake of soap.

3. ((slang{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}})) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

Synonyms

• (dessert): gateau
• (block): block
• (easy task): see piece of cake

Derived terms

a piece of cake ague-cake angel cake, angel food cake ash-cake, ashcake Banbury cake barm cake Battenburg cake batter-cake, battercake beefcake birthday cake bridecake bundt cake cake bar cake-bread cake-eater cake-fumbler cakehole cake-house cakelet cake-meal cake mix cake of soap cake saffron cakes and ale cakes and cheese cake slice cake tin cake-urchin cakewalk cakewalker caking caky carcake carrot cake cattle-cake cheesecake cherry cake chocolate cake chocolate fudge cake Christmas cake coffee cake, coffeecake corn-cake cotton-cake cream cake cupcake devil's food cake Dundee cake Eccles cake every cake has its fellow, every cake has its make, every cake has its mate fairy cake fish cake, fishcake flannel cake friedcake fruitcake fudge cake

go like hot cakes griddle-cake have one's cake and eat it haver-cake heart-cake hoecake Johnny cake, johnny cake journey-cake knead-cake Land of Cakes lardy cake layer cake linseed cake Madeira cake marble cake nutcake oatcake oilcake one's cake is dough Pan-Cake pancake parliament-cake pat-a-cake, patty-cake patty-cake plum-cake Pontefract cake pound cake pomfret-cake queencake rape-cake rice cake rock cake rose-cake rout-cake saffron cake salt-cake seed-cake, seedcake sell like hot cakes Shawnee cake shortcake simnel cake singing cake soul-cake spice-cake sponge cake take the cake teacake tharf-cake the icing on the cake the national cake tipsy cake Twelfth-cake, Twelfth-night cake upside-down cake wedding cake yellowcake

Translations

sweet dessert

Danish: kage c. Finnish: kakku French: gâteau m. (large cake served in slices, or a small, individual cake), pâtisserie f. (small, individual cake) Icelandic: kaka Italian: torta f. (large cake served in slices), pasticcino m. (small, individual cake) Japanese: ケーキ (kēki)

Korean: 케이크 (keikeu) Spanish: pastel m, torta f., queque m. Swedish: tårta c, kaka c Vietnamese: bánhsfd

block of solid material

Finnish: kakku

trivially easy task or responsibility See piece of cake

Translations to be checked

• Breton: gwastell f -où & gwestell pl
• Chinese: 蛋糕; 饼 (bǐng)
• Dutch: taart f, cake m
• Esperanto: kuko
• German: Kuchen m
• Hebrew: עוגה f
• Hungarian: sütemény
• Indonesian: kue tart
• Norwegian (bokmÃ¥l): kake
• Norwegian (nynorsk): kake
• Polish: tort m
• Welsh: cacen, teisen

Verb

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

1. ((transitive{{#if:|, {{{2}}}{{#if:|, {{{3}}}{{#if:|, {{{4}}}{{#if:|, {{{5}}}{{#if:|, {{{6}}}{{#if:|, {{{7}}}{{#if:|, {{{8}}}{{#if:|, {{{9}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}))

To coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

1. His shoes are caked with mud.

Synonyms

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

See also

biscuit Black Forest gateau brownie bun cruller, kruller crumpet dessert donut, doughnut eclair flapjack frangipane gateau gugelhupf, kugelhopf, kugelhupf jumbal koeksister kuchen 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

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Fijian

Adverb

cake

1. up

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French

Noun

Cake m. (plural Cakes)

1. fruitcake (containing rum)

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