cake

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Noun

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.
3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
4. A block of any various dense materials.
5. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
6. (slang) Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
8. (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.
9. A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.

Verb

1. Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
2. To form into a cake, or mass.
3. Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/keɪk/

Etimologia

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.