cake

Betekenis (Engels)

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.

Concepten

koek

taart

cake

stuk

gebak

blok

bedekken

vastkoeken

baksteen

bouwsteen

klinker

steen

tichel

gebakje

dessert

nagerecht

toetje

pudding

flensje

pannenkoek

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/keɪk/

Etymologie (Engels)

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.