noun
- a small, flat mass of dough or batter, or of some hashed food, that is baked or fried
- a mixture of flour, eggs, milk, sugar, etc. baked as in a loaf and often covered with icing
- a solid, shaped mass, as of soap or ice
- a hard crust or deposit
Origin:
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
to form into a hard mass or a crust; solidify or encrust