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

Related forms:
caky, cakey, adjective

Synonyms:
8. harden, solidify, dry, congeal.
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cake   (kāk)   
n.  

  1. A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.

  2. A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake that is baked or fried.

  3. A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.

  4. A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.

  5. A layer or deposit of compacted matter: a cake of grime in the oven.

v.   caked, cak·ing, cakes

v.   tr.
To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter: a miner whose face was caked with soot.
v.   intr.
To become formed into a compact or crusty mass: As temperatures dropped, the wet snow caked.

[Middle English, from Old Norse kaka.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
cake

  1. n.
    money. (From bread, dough.) : I can't scrape together enough cake to do the job.

  2. Go to cakes. :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

cake 
c.1230, from O.N. kaka "cake," from W.Gmc. *kokon-, from PIE base *gag-, *gog- "something round, lump of something." Not related to L. coquere "to cook," as formerly supposed. Replaced its O.E. cognate, coecel. Originally (until c.1420) "a flat, round loaf of bread." Caked "thickly encrusted" (with) is from 1922. Let them eat cake is from Rousseau's "Confessions," in reference to an incident c.1740, when it was already proverbial, long before Marie Antoinette. The "cake" in question was not a confection, but a poor man's food.
"What man, I trow ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake and haue your cake?" ["The Proverbs & Epigrams of John Heywood," 1562]
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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