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cake (kāk)

noun

  1. a small, flat mass of dough or batter, or of some hashed food, that is baked or fried
  2. a mixture of flour, eggs, milk, sugar, etc. baked as in a loaf and often covered with icing
  3. a solid, shaped mass, as of soap or ice
  4. a hard crust or deposit

Etymology: ME < ON kaka < IE base *gag-, *gog-, something round, lump of something (orig. < baby talk) > Ger kuchen: not connected with cook & L coquere

transitive verb, intransitive verb caked, caking cak′·ing

to form into a hard mass or a crust; solidify or encrust

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cake Idioms

take the cake

Etymology: < the practice of awarding a cake as a prize

Informal to be the prime example of a type, quality, etc.: usually used ironically as to convey mild disapproval

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