cake

Meanings

Noun

• A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
• A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
• A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
• A block of any of various dense materials.
• A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
• Money.
• Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
• A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

Verb

• Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
• To form into a cake, or mass.
• Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
• To cackle like a goose.

Origin

• From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka ("cake") (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ ("cake"), from Proto-Indo-European *gog ("ball-shaped object") (compare Northern Kurdish gog ("ball"); Romanian gogoașă ("doughnut") and gogă; Lithuanian gúoge). Related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. coca.