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| cake [ kayk ] |
noun (plural cakes) |
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1. baked sweet flour-based food: a baked sweet food usually made from flour, fat, sugar, eggs, and other ingredients
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2. shaped portion of ground or chopped food: an individual portion of ground or chopped food, shaped into a flat round piece and cooked, often by frying or broiling
  potato cakes
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3. block of something: a solid block of something, e.g. soap, ice, or chocolate
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4. thick layer: a thick layer of something that has collected over a period of time
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5. something divided up: something that is to be shared or divided up, e.g. an amount of money
Everyone wants a slice of the cake.
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verb (past and past participle caked, present participle cak·ing, 3rd person present singular cakes) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb form crust on something: to form, or cover something with, a thick layer of a substance such as dirt, grease, or grime
My boots were caked with mud after I walked through the field.
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2. intransitive verb form into cake: to form into a solid mass
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noun (plural cakes) |
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taboo term: a highly offensive term for a woman's genitals
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| [12th century. < Old Norse kaka "flat round loaf"] |
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| cak·ey adjective |
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have your cake and eat it (too) to try to enjoy the advantages of two things, each of which tends to make the other impossible
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take the cake
1. to be even worse than all the other bad or annoying things that went before
2. to be outstandingly good or successful
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