cake

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A sweet baked food made from flour, sugar, and eggs, often covered with icing.

   She ate a slice of chocolate cake at the birthday party.

2. 2
   noun

   A flat, shaped block of a solid substance.

   There was a fresh cake of soap by the sink.

3. 3
   verb

   To cover something with a thick, hard layer.

   Mud caked his boots after the long walk.

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake English cake From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).

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