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cake

  [keyk] noun, verb, caked, cak⋅ing.
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–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.
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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piece   (pēs)   
n.  

  1. A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion: a piece of string.

  2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole: a piece of cake.

  3. An object that is one member of a group or class: a piece of furniture.

  4. An artistic, musical, or literary work or composition: "They are lively and well-plotted pieces, both in prose" (Tucker Brooke).

  5. An instance; a specimen: a piece of sheer folly.

  6. A declaration of one's opinions or findings: speak one's piece.

  7. A coin: a ten-cent piece.

  8. Games

    1. One of the counters or figures used in playing various board games.

    2. Any one of the chess figures other than a pawn.

  9. Slang A firearm, especially a rifle.

  10. Informal A given distance: "There was farm country down the road on the right a piece" (James Agee).

  11. Vulgar Slang A sexually attractive person.

tr.v.   pieced, piec·ing, piec·es

  1. To mend by adding pieces or a piece to.

  2. To join or unite the pieces of: He pieced together the vase. She pieced together an account of what had gone on during the stormy meeting.


[Middle English pece, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably of Celtic origin.]
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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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piece of cake

  1. n.
    something easy to do. : No problem. When you know what you're doing, it's a piece of cake.
  2. exclam.
    It's a piece of cake!; It's easy! (Usually Piece of cake!) : Rescuing drowning cats is my specialty. Piece of cake!
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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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Idioms & Phrases

piece of cake

Something easily accomplished, as in I had no trouble finding your housea piece of cake. This expression originated in the Royal Air Force in the late 1930s for an easy mission, and the precise reference is as mysterious as that of the simile easy as pie. Possibly it evokes the easy accomplishment of swallowing a slice of sweet dessert.

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