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quake
English
Etymology
From Middle English quaken, from Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble, chatter”), from Proto-Germanic *kwak?n? (“to shake, quiver, tremble”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?og- (“to shake, swing”), related to Old English cwe??an (“to shake, swing, move, vibrate, shake off, give up”) (see quitch), Dutch kwakkelen (“to ail, be ailing”), German Quackelei (“chattering”), Danish kvakle (“to bungle”), Latin v?x? (“toss, shake violently, jostle, vex”), Irish bogadh (“a move, movement, shift, change”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwe?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
Noun
quake (plural quakes)
- A trembling or shaking.
- We felt a quake in the apartment every time the train went by.
- An earthquake, a trembling of the ground with force.
- California is plagued by quakes; there are a few minor ones almost every month.
Translations
Verb
quake (third-person singular simple present quakes, present participle quaking, simple past and past participle quaked or (archaic) quoke or (obsolete) quook)
- (intransitive) To tremble or shake.
- 1575-86, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- Dorus threw Pamela behind a tree; where she stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is even ready to seize.
- 1575-86, Sir Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble.
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
- 1598-99, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, Scene I
- If Cupid have not spent all his quiver in / Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
- 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene II
- Now could I drink hot blood / And do such bitter business as the bitter day / Would quake to look on.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part 2, Act IV, Scene VIII
- Who honours not his father, Henry the fifth, that made all France to quake, Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by.
- Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and carefulness.
Derived terms
- quakebreech
- quakebuttock
- Quaker
Translations
German
Pronunciation
Verb
quake
- inflection of quaken:
- first-person singular present
- singular imperative
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
Middle English
Verb
quake
- Alternative form of quaken
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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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