noun
cake
kayk
noun
1
A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients.
"She baked a chocolate cake for his birthday."
"They cut the wedding cake in front of all the guests."
verb
1
To coat something thickly, or to harden into a solid crusted layer.
"Mud caked his boots after the hike."
"The blood had caked around the wound by morning."
How to Use Cake
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishThe sweet dessert everyone knows, or, as a verb, to build up into a hard crusty layer.
Common mistake
The idiom "a piece of cake" means something is easy — it has nothing to do with dessert.
Common pairings
bake a cake
slice of cake
caked in mud
piece of cake
Word Forms
caked past tense, cakes singular
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Etymology
From Old Norse kaka, related to Swedish and Icelandic kaka — an old Germanic word whose ultimate origin is disputed.