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cake
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)
- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- Synonym: gateau
- 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.
- buckwheat cakes
- A block of any of various dense materials.
- Synonym: block
- Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.
- (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
- Synonyms: piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
- (slang) Money.
- 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.
- 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
- (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)
- (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
- Synonyms: crust, encrust
- (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
- (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)
- (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
- 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)
- pound cake
Derived terms
- boerencake
- cakeblik
- cakevorm
Related terms
- cupcake
Fijian
Adverb
cake
- up
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English cake.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?k/
Noun
cake m (plural cakes)
- fruitcake (containing rum).
- 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)
- cake (any sort of flat doughy food)
- (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
- (Christianity, rare) The communion wafer or host.
- (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)
- cake; fruitcake
Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ték(?)os.
Noun
cake ?
- 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
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harden
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?h??dn?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??dn?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d?n
- Hyphenation: hard?en
Etymology 1
From Middle English hardenen, equivalent to hard +? -en. Cognate with Danish hærdne (“to harden; cure”), Swedish hårdna (“to harden”), Norwegian herdne (“to harden”), Icelandic harðna (“to harden”).
Verb
harden (third-person singular simple present hardens, present participle hardening, simple past and past participle hardened)
- (intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
- (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
- (transitive, figuratively) To strengthen.
- 2002, Jane's International Defense Review (volume 35)
- In view of the system's relatively low cost, the preferred alternative could be for the military user to avail himself of multiple base stations rather than seeking to harden the base station hardware for defense applications.
- 2002, Jane's International Defense Review (volume 35)
- (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- (transitive, intransitive, dated) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
- Synonym: inure
- KJV, Exodus 4:21
- When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
- (transitive, intransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis.
Derived terms
- forharden
- hardened
- hardener
- hardening
- harden off
- harden someone's heart
- harden up
- overharden
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
harden (countable and uncountable, plural hardens)
- Alternative form of hurden (“coarse linen”)
Anagrams
- Harned, Hendra, hander
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?rd?n
Verb
harden
- (transitive) To render hard(er), more resistant etc.; to temper metal; to steel nerves
- De geharde veteranen verbeten de pijn zonder jammeren.
- The hardened veterans bore the pain without whining.
- De geharde veteranen verbeten de pijn zonder jammeren.
- (transitive) to endure, bear, stand, tolerate
Inflection
Synonyms
- (to endure) uithouden, verdragen
Noun
harden
- Plural form of harde
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