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cake

[keyk] noun, verb, caked, cak⋅ing.
–noun
1. a sweet, baked, breadlike food, made with or without shortening, and usually containing flour, sugar, baking powder or soda, eggs, and liquid flavoring.
2. a flat, thin mass of bread, esp. unleavened bread.
3. pancake; griddlecake.
4. a shaped or molded mass of other food: a fish cake.
5. a shaped or compressed mass: a cake of soap; a cake of ice.
6. Animal Husbandry. a compacted block of soybeans, cottonseeds, or linseeds from which the oil has been pressed, usually used as a feed or feed supplement for cattle.
–verb (used with object)
7. to form into a crust or compact mass.
–verb (used without object)
8. to become formed into a crust or compact mass.
9. a piece of cake, Informal. something easily done: She thought her first solo flight was a piece of cake.
10. take the cake, Informal.
a. to surpass all others, esp. in some undesirable quality; be extraordinary or unusual: His arrogance takes the cake.
b. to win first prize.

Origin:
1200–50; ME < ON kaka; akin to ME kechel little cake, G Kuchen; see cookie


caky, cakey, adjective


8. harden, solidify, dry, congeal.
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