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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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mush
English
Etymology 1
Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English m?s (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *m?s, from Proto-Germanic *m?s? (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”). See also moose.
Alternative forms
- moosh
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: m?sh, IPA(key): /m??/
- (US) IPA(key): /m??/
- ,
- Rhymes: -??
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)
- A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
- (surfing) The foam of a breaker.
- 2008, Bucky McMahon, Night Diver (page 80)
- And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
- 2008, Bucky McMahon, Night Diver (page 80)
- (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
Translations
Verb
mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)
- To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- He mushed the ingredients together.
Translations
Derived terms
- apple-mush
- mushy
See also
- mash
- moosh
Etymology 2
From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: m?sh, IPA(key): /m??/
- ,
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)
- A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- (rural US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- 2007, Andrew F. Smith, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink
- However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.
- 2007, Andrew F. Smith, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink
Translations
Etymology 3
Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marchons! and marche!, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: m?sh, IPA(key): /m??/, /m??/
- ,
- Rhymes: -??
Interjection
mush
- A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
Translations
Derived terms
- musher
Noun
mush (plural mushes)
- A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
Verb
mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)
- (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
- 1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4:
- Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.
- 1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4:
Etymology 4
Simple contraction of mushroom.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: m?sh, IPA(key): /m??/
- ,
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
mush (plural mushes)
- (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.
Synonyms
- shroom (slang)
Translations
Etymology 5
From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit ?????? (manu?ya, “human being, man”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: mo?osh, IPA(key): /m??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
mush (plural mushes)
- (Britain, slang, chiefly Southern England) A form of address, normally to a man.
- Synonyms: (UK) mate, (especially US) pal
- (Britain, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.
- Synonym: mug
Translations
References
- Take Our Word for It Issue 101, accessed on 2005-05-09
Etymology 6
Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).
Verb
mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)
- (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
Anagrams
- Hums, Shum, hums
Angloromani
Etymology
From Romani mur?, from Sanskrit ?????? (manu?ya, “human being, man”).
Noun
mush (plural mushes)
- man
Descendants
- ? English: mush
References
- “mush” in The Manchester Romani Project, Angloromani Dictionary.
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