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cake

/keɪk/

noun

Meaning

  • 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 johnnycake"

  • A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

    "buckwheat cakes"

  • A block of any of various dense materials.

    "a cake of sand"

  • A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

  • Money.

  • Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

  • A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

    "Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!"

Synonyms

block,
gâteau,
piece of cake

verb

Meaning

  • Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

    "His shoes are caked with mud."

  • To form into a cake, or mass.

Synonyms

crust,
encrust