different between cake vs drake

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kak? (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog (“ball-shaped object”) (compare Northern Kurdish gog (“ball”); Romanian gogoa?? (“doughnut”) and gog? (“walnut, nut”); Lithuanian gúoge (“head of cabbage”)). Related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?k, IPA^(key): /ke?k/, [k?e?k]
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

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

   Synonym: gateau

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

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

   buckwheat cakes

4. A block of any of various dense materials.

   Synonym: block

   • Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.

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

   Synonyms: piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

6. (slang) Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
   • 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

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

8. (slang) A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump.

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

Usage notes

• In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as sandwich cookies, while in the UK, typically only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
• Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these are wafers.
• Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Assamese: ??’? (këk)
• ? Dutch: kaak, cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)
• ? French: cake
• ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (k?k)
• ? Hijazi Arabic: ????? (k?ka)
• ? Japanese: ??? (k?ki)
• ? Korean: ??? (keikeu)
• ? Nauruan: keik
• ? Portuguese: queque
• ? Russian: ??? (kek)
• ? Spanish: queque

From the plural cakes:

• ? Danish: kiks
  • ? Faroese: keks
• ? German: Keks
  • ? Polish: keks
  • ? Russian: ???? (keks)
  • ? Serbo-Croatian: k?ks, ?????
• ? Icelandic: kex
• ? Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjeks

  Nynorsk: kjeks

• ? Swedish: kex
  • ? Finnish: keksi

Translations

See also

• Category:Cakes and pastries

Verb

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

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

   Synonyms: crust, encrust

2. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
3. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

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

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.

Translations

Further reading

• cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• akçe

Ambonese Malay

Etymology

Unknown.

Verb

cake

1. to eat (only used during heated conversations)

   Synonym: makang

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ke?k/
• Hyphenation: cake
• Rhymes: -e?k

Noun

cake m (plural cakes, diminutive cakeje n)

1. pound cake

Derived terms

• boerencake
• cakeblik
• cakevorm

Related terms

• cupcake

Fijian

Adverb

cake

1. up

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?k/

Noun

cake m (plural cakes)

1. fruitcake (containing rum).
2. quick bread (a smallish loaf-shaped baked good which may be sweet like an English cake or salty and with bits of meat. See insert).

Further reading

• “cake” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• kake, caake, cayk

Etymology

From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kak?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?k(?)/

Noun

cake (plural cakes)

1. cake (any sort of flat doughy food)
2. (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
3. (Christianity, rare) The communion wafer or host.
4. (rare) A lump, boil, or ball; a cake-shaped object.

Derived terms

• pancake

Descendants

• English: cake (see there for further descendants)
• Scots: cake
• Yola: caake, kaake

References

• “c?ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-05.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English cake, from Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?keik/, [?kei?k]

Noun

cake m (plural cakes)

1. cake; fruitcake

Tocharian B

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ték(?)os.

Noun

cake ?

1. river

References

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?e?k/
• Rhymes: -e?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), from Old English draca, abbreviated form for Old English *andraca (“male duck, drake”, literally “duck-king”), from Proto-West Germanic *anadrek? (“duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at ennet.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A male duck.

Derived terms

• duck on drake
• ducks and drakes
• sheldrake

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drak? (“dragon”), from Latin drac? (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n, “serpent, giant seafish”), from ???????? (dérkomai, “I see clearly”), from Proto-Indo-European *der?-. Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache.

Noun

drake (plural drakes)

1. A mayfly used as fishing bait.
2. (poetic) A dragon.
   • 2016, Anthony Ryan, The Waking Fire: Book One of Draconis Memoria

     Clay caught sight of the drake's wing outlined against the rising flames as it swept low over the desert.

3. (historical) A small piece of artillery.
4. A fiery meteor.
   • c. 1620,, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     The moon’s my constant Mistresse
     & the lowlie owle my morrowe.
     The flaming Drake and y? Nightcrowe make
     mee musicke to my sorrowe.

5. A beaked galley, or Viking warship.

Synonyms

• (mayfly): drake fly

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• drake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Daker, Darke, E.D. Ark., Radke, daker, darke, raked

Afrikaans

Noun

drake

1. plural of draak

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *drako, an early Germanic borrowing of Latin drac? (“dragon”).

Noun

dr?ke m

1. dragon, wyrm

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: draak
  • Afrikaans: draak
• Limburgish: draagk, draogk

Further reading

• “drake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “drake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• drage

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n) and Old Norse dreki.

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural draker, definite plural drakene)

1. a dragon
2. a kite

References

• “drake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dreki, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²dr??k?/

Noun

drake m (definite singular draken, indefinite plural drakar, definite plural drakane)

1. a dragon
2. a kite
3. a type of longship decorated with a dragon's head

References

• “drake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish draki, from Old Norse dreki, borrowed from Middle Low German drake, from Proto-West Germanic *drak?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dr???k?/

Noun

drake c

1. dragon
2. kite
3. a male duck, drake
4. a belligerent (older) woman; battle-ax

Declension

Anagrams

• kader