cake

noun cakes

1. countable, uncountable A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her.
2. countable, uncountable A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. an oatmeal cake
3. countable, uncountable A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. buckwheat cakes
4. countable, uncountable A block of any various dense materials. a cake of soap
5. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, slang, uncountable Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.piece of cake Now that I escape, sleepwalk awake / Those who could relate know the world ain't cake
6. countable, slang, uncountable Synonym of money.
7. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of have one's cake and eat it too.have one's cake and eat it too "It looks like the cake philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk.
8. countable, slang, uncountable Synonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full. Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
9. countable, uncountable A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
10. UK, countable, figuratively, uncountable Synonym of pie, the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided into parts. I am aware of the efforts made to contest the relevance of these statistics... But you cannot get away from the fact that a low gdp means a smaller national cake and that there is less wealth to go round.
11. UK, countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable 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."

Similar: cake, gateau, pastry

verb cakes · caking · caked

1. transitive Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. His shoes are caked with mud.
2. transitive To form into a cake, or mass.
3. intransitive Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard. Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.