cake
cake · noun
Definitions
noun
- 1.
A sweet baked dessert made from flour, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients, often decorated with frosting.
- 2.
To form into a hard mass or crust.
- 3.
A flat, compact mass of something.
Forms
plural: cakes
Phrases & expressions
- •piece of cake — something very easy
- •have your cake and eat it too — wanting to have two incompatible things
- •the icing on the cake — an attractive but inessential addition
- •take the cake — to be the most remarkable or outrageous
- •cakewalk — something easily accomplished
- •sell like hot cakes — to sell very quickly and in large quantities
Related words
Etymology
From Old Norse kaka ("cake"), related to Middle High German kuoche and Dutch koek. The word has been in English since the 13th century.