cake

A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

an oatmeal cake

a johnnycake

A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

buckwheat cakes

A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

a cake of soap

a cake of sand

Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.

1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

(slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.

"It looks like the cake [and eat it] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk.

2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018

having one's cake and eating it too
have one's cake and eat it too#English

Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.

Mmm, I'd like to cut me some of that cake!

(slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

(pyrotechnics) A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.

en-noun

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

Tok Pisin: kek

→ Albanian: kek

→ Arabic: كَيْك (kayk)

→ Assamese: কে’ক (këk)

→ Atong (India): kek

→ Bengali: কেক (kek)

→⇒ Burmese: ကိတ်မုန့် (kitmun.)

→ Cantonese: 𠽤 (gik¹)

→ Cebuano: keyk

→ Dhivehi: ކޭކު (kēku)

→ Dutch: kaak (spelling pronunciation), cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)

→ Fijian: keke

→ Fiji Hindi: kek

→ French: cake
→ Greek: κεκ (kek)

→ Greek: κέικ (kéik)

→ Gujarati: કેક (kek)

→ Gulf Arabic: كيكة (kēka)

→ Hausa: kyât

→ Hijazi Arabic: كيكة (kēka)

→ Hindi: केक (kek)

→ Iban: kek

→ Indonesian: keik

→ Japanese: ケーキ (kēki)

→ Korean: 케익 (keik), 케이크 (keikeu)

→ Lao: ເຄັກ (khek)

→ Macanese: queique

→ Malay: kek

→ Malayalam: കേക്ക് (kēkkŭ)

→ Maori: keke

→ Nauruan: keik

→ Persian: کِیک /کیک (keyk/kêk)

→ Portuguese: queque

→ Romanian: chec

→ Russian: кек (kek)

→ Spanish: queique, queque, keke; cake

→ Swahili: keki

→ Swazi: líkhékhe

→ Tagalog: keyk, keik

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→ Thai: เค้ก (kéek)
→ Urak Lawoi': เคก (khëk)

→ Tongan: keke

→ Turkish: kek

→ Urdu: کیک (kek)

→ Volapük: kek

→ Xhosa: íkéki, ikeyiki

→ Yoruba: kéèkì

→ Zazaki: kek

→ Zulu: îkhékhe

→ Danish: kiks, (older) keks
→ Faroese: keks
→ Icelandic: kex

→ German: Keks, (obsolete) Cakes
→ Belarusian: кекс (kjeks)
→ Hungarian: keksz
→ Lithuanian: keksas
→ Macedonian: кекс (keks)
→ Polish: keks
→ Kashubian: keks
→ Vilamovian: kēks
→ Yiddish: קעקס (keks)
→ Russian: кекс (keks)
→ Chuvash: кекс (keks)
→ Crimean Tatar: keks
→ Yiddish: קעקס (keks)
→ Serbo-Croatian: kȅks, ке̏кс
→ Ukrainian: кекс (keks)

→ Greek: κέικς (kéiks)

→ Norwegian:

Bokmål: kjeks

Nynorsk: kjeks

→ Swedish: kex, käx (dated)
→ Finnish: keksi

gâteau

large cake served in slices, or a small, individual cake

kakku

used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
Old Norse kakabor.
Middle English cake
English cake
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).


cake

His shoes are caked with mud.

(transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

(transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.

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.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

en-verb

cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)

cakes (present singular third-person)
caking (participle present)
caked (participle past)
caked (past)