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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, especially 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.
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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.
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verb (used with object)
7.
to form into a crust or compact mass.

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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, especially in some undesirable quality; be extraordinary or unusual: His arrogance takes the cake.
b.
to win first prize.
Origin:
1200–50; Middle English < Old Norse kaka; akin to Middle English kechel little cake, German Kuchen; see cookie

Related forms
cak·y, cak·ey, adjective
non·cak·ing, adjective, noun
un·cake, verb (used with object), un·caked, un·cak·ing.

Synonyms
8. harden, solidify, dry, congeal.

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Word Origin & History

cake
c.1600, from cake (n.). Caked "thickly encrusted" is from 1922.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary

cake definition


  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 definition


  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!
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

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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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