cake

cake [kāk]

n.

[ME < ON kaka < IE base * gag-, *gog-, something round, lump of something (orig. < baby talk) > Ger kuchen: not connected with COOK & L coquere]

1. a small, flat mass of dough or batter, or of some hashed food, that is baked or fried

2. a mixture of flour, eggs, milk, sugar, etc. baked as in a loaf and often covered with icing

3. a solid, shaped mass, as of soap or ice

4. a hard crust or deposit

vt., vi.

caked, caking

to form into a hard mass or a crust; solidify or encrust

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take the cake [< the practice of awarding a cake as a prize]

Informal to be the prime example of a type, quality, etc.: usually used ironically as to convey mild disapproval

caky

adj.

or cakey adj., cakier, cakiest

cakey

adj.