Sekirov Dictionary

cake

/keɪk/

noun 11
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 9

noun11

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a soft sweet food of flour, eggs and sugar that is cooked, often with a sweet covering
- On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her. — 2025
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A block of any various dense materials.
- Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood. — 1697
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
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A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- buckwheat cakes
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(slang) Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
- Now that I escape, sleepwalk awake / Those who could relate know the world ain't cake — 1996
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Ellipsis of have one's cake and eat it too.
- "It looks like the cake philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk. — 2018
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(slang) Synonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full.
- Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
(slang) Synonym of money.
(UK, figurative) Synonym of pie, the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided into parts.
A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
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(slang, no longer used) A foolish person.
- "The Lord Mayor can say tart things," said Hobler to a scavenger. "Yes," replied the dustman, "he does say things that are tart, which is not to be wondered at when we know him to be a regular cake." — 1834

verb3

To form into a cake, or mass.
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Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
- His shoes are caked with mud.
Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

forms

caked · caking · cakes

Phrases with cake

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