different between clod vs cake

English

Etymology

From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to Dutch klodde (“rag”) and kloot (“clod”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kl?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kl?d/
• Rhymes: -?d, -??d

Noun

clod (plural clods)

1. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, s:Jerusalem Delivered

     clods of blood

   • 1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine

     As for yon clod of clay, we will bury it later, lest it should pollute so goodly a pool.

   • 1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary

     One of the clods took it back of the ear, and it used language. It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own.

   • 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest

     "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.

2. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
   • 1723, Jonathan Swift, Pethox the Great

     the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod

3. A stupid person; a dolt.
   • 1906, Robert Barr, The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont

     'What was its number?'
     'I don't know, sir.'
     'You clod! Why didn't you call one of our men, whoever was nearest, and leave him to shadow the American while you followed the cab?'

   • 1986 February 14, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

     So here's a valentine for you, you insensitive clod!!

   • 1998, Chickenpox (episode of South Park TV series)

     Gerald Broflovski: You see Kyle, we humans work as a society, and in order for a society to thrive, we need gods and clods.

   • 2015, "Jail Break" (episode of Steven Universe TV series)

     Peridot: Don't touch that! You clods don't know what you're doing!

4. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

Translations

Verb

clod (third-person singular simple present clods, present participle clodding, simple past and past participle clodded)

1. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
   • 1906, Mark Twain,Eve's Diary"

     "When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone."

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

2. (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
   • 1610, Template:Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph

     Clodded in lumps of clay.

References

clod in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• cold, loc'd

Middle English

Alternative forms

• clodd, clodde, cludde

Etymology

A late by-form of clot of unclear provenance. Compare Old English *clod, a form of clot found in compounds and placenames.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?d/

Noun

clod (plural cloddes)

1. A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
2. (rare) A clot or clump of blood.
3. (rare) A shoulder of beef.

Derived terms

• clodred
• clodden
• cloddre

Descendants

• English: clod
• Scots: clod

References

• “clod, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *klutom (“rumour; fame”), from Proto-Indo-European *?lew- (“heard, famous”) (whence also clywed (“to hear”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klo?d/

Noun

clod m (plural clodydd)

1. praise, renown, credit
2. distinction (in exam results)

Derived terms

• anghlod (“dispraise”)
• canu clodydd (“to sing the praises of”)
• clodfawr (“famous, renowned”)
• clodwiw (“praiseworthy”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “clod”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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