cake

== English == === Etymology === 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 (pastry). === Pronunciation === enPR: kāk, IPA(key): /keɪk/, [ˈk̟ʰeɪ̯k̚] Rhymes: -eɪk === Noun === cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes) A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. Synonym: gateau 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. Synonym: block (slang) Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility. Synonyms: piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing (slang) Money. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too. 2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018 "It looks like the cake [and eat it] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk. (slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full. Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks (pyrotechnics) A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse. (UK, slang, obsolete) A foolish person. ==== Usage notes ==== In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). 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, typically 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 in this image (saltine crackers) are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like in this image (Nilla Wafers) and this image (wafer sticks) 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 ==== ==== Descendants ==== From the plural cakes: ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Category:Cakes and pastries === Verb === cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked) (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. Synonyms: crust, encrust (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === (foolish person): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary === Further reading === cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Category:cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons === Anagrams === ecka, akçe, EAKC, ace K == Albanian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt͡sakɛ/ === Noun === cake indefinite dative/ablative singular of cakë === Verb === cake second-person singular aorist of cak (“undress”) == Ambonese Malay == === Etymology === Compare to North Moluccan Malay ceké (“to strangle, to choke, to eat (greedily)”). === Verb === cake (angry register) to eat Synonym: makang Kalu ale su cake jang bicara lai! ― Do not speak when you're eating! === References === D. Takaria, C. Pieter (1998), Kamus Bahasa Melayu Ambon-Indonesia‎[2], Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English cake. Doublet of kaak. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /keːk/ Hyphenation: cake Rhymes: -eːk === Noun === cake m (plural cakes, diminutive cakeje n) pound cake ==== Derived terms ==== arretjescake boerencake cakeblik cakevorm chocoladecake ==== Related terms ==== cupcake == Fijian == === Etymology === From Proto-Central Pacific *cake, from Proto-Oceanic *sake (“to ascend, to rise up”), from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *sakay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *sakay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay (“to climb, to rise up”). Sense of “east, eastward” due to prevailing trade winds in Fiji coming from the east and southeast, making eastern directions “upwind, windward”. === Adverb === cake up, upward (towards a higher place) Synonym: (Colo East) colo (meteorology) upwind, windward (towards the wind) Synonym: (Colo East) colo (by extension) east, eastward (towards the east) Synonym: (Colo East) colo forms comparative adjectival phrases: more, -er ‎balavu (“tall, long, black”) + ‎cake → ‎balavu cake (“taller, longer, black”) ‎dredre (“hard”) + ‎cake → ‎dredre cake (“harder”) ==== Usage notes ==== When used in the comparative sense, cake follows the adjective it modifies to express comparison, equivalent to the English suffix “-er” or “more”. For expressions of additional quantity (rather than comparison of quality), Fijian uses tale instead: ‎e dua (“one”) + ‎tale → ‎e dua tale (“one more”) ‎eso (“some”) + ‎tale → ‎eso tale (“some more”) ==== Derived terms ==== === See also === kaiColo (“highlander (of Viti Levu)”) === References === Gatty, Ronald (2009), “cake”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎[3], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 39 == French == === Etymology === Borrowed from English cake. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɛk/ === Noun === cake m (plural cakes) fruitcake (containing rum) 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) ==== Derived terms ==== tronche de cake ==== Descendants ==== → Greek: κεκ (kek) === Further reading === “cake”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Middle English == === Alternative forms === kake, caake, cayk === Etymology === From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkaːkə/ === Noun === cake (plural cakes) A cake (any sort of flat doughy food): (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness. (Christianity, rare) A communion wafer. (rare) A lump, boil, or ball. ==== Derived terms ==== pancake ==== Descendants ==== English: cake (see there for further descendants) Geordie: kyek Scots: cake, cyaak, kyaak Yola: caake, kaake → Irish: cáca →⇒ Welsh: cacen ==== References ==== “cāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 July 2018. == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka. Doublet of queque. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkeik/ [ˈkei̯k] Rhymes: -eik === Noun === cake m (plural cakes) cake; fruitcake ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. ==== Related terms ==== == Tocharian B == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *ték(ʷ)os. === Noun === cake ? 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, →ISBN