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Webster 1913 Edition

Cake

Cake

(kāk)
,
Noun.
[OE.
cake
,
kaak
; akin to Dan.
kage
, Sw. & Icel.
kaka
, D.
koek
, G.
kuchen
, OHG.
chuocho
.]
1.
A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough;
as, an oatmeal
cake
; johnny
cake
.
2.
A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
3.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
4.
A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high;
as, a
cake
of soap; an ague
cake
.
Cakes
of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.
Dryden.
Cake urchin
(Zool)
,
any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the
Clypeastroidea
. –
Oil cake
the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes.
–
To have one’s cake dough
,
to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected.
Shak.

Cake

,
Verb.
I.
To form into a cake, or mass.

Cake

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Caked
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Caking
.]
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that
caked
within.
Addison.

Cake

,
Verb.
I.
To cackle as a goose.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Cake

CAKE

,
Noun.
1.
A small mass of dough baked; or a composition of flour, butter, sugar, or other ingredients, baked in a small mass. The name is applied to various compositions, baked or cooked in different shapes.
2.
Something in the form of a cake, rather flat than high, but roundish; as a cake on a tree.
3.
A mass of matter concreted; as a cake of ice.
In New England, a piece of floating ice in a river or lake.
4.
A hard swelling on the flesh; or rather a concretion without such swelling.

CAKE

,
Verb.
T.
To form into a cake or mass.

CAKE

,
Verb.
I.
To concrete, or form into a had mass, as dough in an oven, or as flesh or any other substance.

CAKE

,
Verb.
I.
To cackle.

Definition 2024

cake

cake

English

A slice of cake (1), specifically a slice of a torte.
A layer cake from which a slice has been removed.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kāk, IPA(key): /keɪk/
  • 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.
  2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
    an oatmeal cake
    a 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 soap
    a cake of sand
    • Dryden
      Cakes 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 North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. 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, 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 these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these 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
Synonyms
Descendants
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.
    His shoes are caked with mud.
  2. To form into a cake, or mass.
Synonyms
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cake

Etymology

Borrowing from English cake.

Noun

cake m ‎(plural cakes, diminutive cakeje n)

  1. pound cake

Fijian

Adverb

cake

  1. up
Un cake au jambon.

French

Etymology

From English cake.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɛk/, /kek/

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).

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *tékʷ-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

Etymology

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”), Albanian kokë ‎(“head”). Related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche.

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