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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

Alternative forms

• fether (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþr? (compare West Frisian fear, German Low German Fedder, Dutch veder, veer, German Feder, Yiddish ??????? (feder), Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder, Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør, Norwegian Nynorsk fjør), from Proto-Indo-European *péth?r? (“feather, wing”), from *peth?- (“to fly”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ??????? (pétomai), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna, Old Armenian ??? (t?i?).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?ð.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?ð.?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)
• Hyphenation: feath?er

Noun

feather (plural feathers)

1. A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.
   • 1873, W. K. Brooks, "A Feather", Popular Science Monthly, volume IV, page 687

     Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave.
2. Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.

   Synonyms: feathers, feathering, horsefeathers

   Antonym: spats

3. One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.
4. A longitudinal strip projecting from an object to strengthen it, or to enter a channel in another object and thereby prevent displacement sideways but permit motion lengthwise; a spline.
5. Kind; nature; species (from the proverbial phrase "birds of a feather").
6. One of the two shims of the three-piece stone-splitting tool known as plug and feather or plug and feathers; the feathers are placed in a borehole and then a wedge is driven between them, causing the stone to split.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

7. The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water.
8. Anything petty or trifling; a whit or jot.
   • 1823, An Ecclesiastical Memoir of Essex Street Religious Society

     To some pew purchasers he gave deeds, to others he gave, none, but both were promised security, and both it seems were equally secure, for the pew deed as Mr. Melledge declared to Mr. G. was not worth a feather.

9. (hunting, in the plural) Partridges and pheasants, as opposed to rabbits and hares (called fur).
10. (rail transport) A junction indicator attached to a colour-light signal at an angle, which lights up, typically with four white lights in a row, when a diverging route is set up.

Synonyms

• plume (archaic, literary and poetic), pluma (archaic)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

feather (third-person singular simple present feathers, present participle feathering, simple past and past participle feathered)

1. To cover or furnish with feathers; (when of an arrow) to fletch.
   • 1912, Frances, Object-lessons on Temperance, Or, The Indian Maiden and Her White Deer, page 117:

     Olondaw had taught Hazeleye how to use her bow and arrows, and that each might know the result of his or her own shooting, he had feathered her arrow with white and his own with red. How strange are the events of this life, […]

   • 2007, Thomas Perry, Vanishing Act, Ballantine Books (?ISBN), page 302:

     She feathered her arrows in the Seneca fashion, two lengths of feather tied on with a spiral twist, so they would spin in flight. The trick was to glue both sides in place with a little sticky pine sap so they would stay put while she tied them […]

2. To adorn, as if with feathers; to fringe.
3. To arrange in the manner or appearance of feathers.

4. (transitive, intransitive, rowing) To rotate the oars while they are out of the water to reduce wind resistance.
5. (aeronautics) To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut down so that the propeller does not windmill during flight.

6. (carpentry, engineering) To finely shave or bevel an edge.
7. (computer graphics) To intergrade or blend the pixels of an image with those of a background or neighboring image.
8. To render light as a feather; to give wings to.
   • c. 1650, Robert Loveday, letter to Mr. C.

     The Polonian story, which perhaps may feather some tedious hours.

9. To enrich; to exalt; to benefit.

   • They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

10. To tread, as a cock.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

11. (snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.
12. (snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
13. To touch lightly, like (or as if with) a feather.
    • 2001, Joan Hohl, Maybe Tomorrow, Zebra Books (?ISBN), page 186:

      His breath feathered her lips; her spine, her legs weakened, went soft at the wafting warmth.

    • 2006, Gary Parker, Her Daddy's Eyes, Baker Books (?ISBN), page 143:

      A soft breeze feathered her face and hair. The smell of honeysuckle blanketed the air. She concentrated on shutting out every sound except the whisper of her heart. Gradually the inner distractions became fewer.

14. To move softly, like a feather.
    • 2005, Radclyffe, Justice Served, Bold Strokes Books Inc (?ISBN):

      She feathered her fingers through Mitchell's hair. “Besides, I like you a whole lot better than Frye.”

    • 2011, L.L. Raand, Blood Hunt, Bold Strokes Books Inc (?ISBN):

      “Asking me not to breathe would be simpler,” Drake said. “If I could spare you what's coming—” “No.” Drake feathered her fingers through Sylvan's hair. “We fight together.” Sylvan nodded and relaxed in her embrace. Drake didn't fear death.

Derived terms

• feathered
• feather one's nest
• feather one's own nest
• tar and feather

Translations

Further reading

• feather on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Horse Glossary
• Horses Glossary
• Cowboy Dictionary – Cowboy F: Feather

Anagrams

• feareth, terefah