cake
Significat (English)
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- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- A block of any various dense materials.
- (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
- (slang) Money.
- Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
- (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
- A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
Synonyms
grow over
scar over
sweet food
mound over
burning-off
block mass
drilling mud cake
Bauchlandung
become encrusted
abacus
become caked
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/keɪk/
Etimologia (English)
In summary
Etymology tree Middle English cake English cake 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.
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