cake

Plural: cakes

Noun

• a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
• small flat mass of chopped food
• baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
• A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
• A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
• A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
• A block of any various dense materials.
• Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.
• Money.
• Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
• A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.
• A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.

Verb

Verb Forms: caked, caking, cakes

• To form into a hardened or solid mass.
• form a coat over
• Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
• To form into a cake, or mass.
• Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Examples

• a cake of sand
• a cake of soap
• a johnnycake
• an oatmeal cake
• buckwheat cakes
• His shoes are caked with mud.
• Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
• The mud had begun to cake around his boots after hours of walking to the Scrabble tournament.

Synonyms

bar, coat, patty, 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass, ass cheeks, back, backside, bagatelle, batty, behind, blessed assurance, block, booty, bottom, botty, breeze, bum, bum cheeks, buns, butt, butt cheeks, buttocks, caboose, cake and gingerbread, cakewalk, cheeks, child's play, cinch, crust, derriere, doddle, doss, duck soup, easy pickings, encrust, fanny, fourth point of contact, gateau, gimme, glutes, gluteus maximus, gooseberry-grinder, heinie, hinderlin, hiney, hurdies, jacksie, keester, keister, layup, low-hanging fruit, moneymaker, moon, nates, nether cheeks, no-brainer, open and shut case, pastry, patootie, peach, picnic, piece of cake, piece of piss, plain sailing, plane sailing, posterior, rear, rear end, rump, seat, sit upon, slam dunk, snap, tail, toches, tush, tushie, walk in the park, walkover

Related Words

Black Forest gâteau, Linzertorte, Sally Lunn, Swiss roll, Victoria sponge, biscuit, brownie, bun, cruller, crumpet, dessert, donut, doughnut, flapjack, frangipane, gugelhupf, gâteau, jumbal, koeksister, kruller, kuchen, kugelhopf, kugelhupf, ladyfinger, lamington, madeleine, muffin, parkin, pastry, patisserie, petit four, pie, pikelet, pudding, rum baba, scone, sponge, tart, torte, yumyum, éclair

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