cake /kāk/

1. A breadlike composition enriched with additions such as sugar, eggs, spices, currants, peel, etc
2. A separately made mass of such composition
3. A piece of dough that is baked
4. A small loaf of fine bread
5. Any flattened mass baked, as oatcake, or formed by pressure or drying, as of soap, clay, snow, blood
6. Cattle cake
7. A madcap or fool (archaic sl)

To form into a cake or hard mass

cākˈing noun and adjective

cākˈy or cakˈey adjective

cake hole noun (slang)

Mouth

cakeˈwalk noun

1. A dance developed from a prancing movement once performed by black Americans in competition for a cake
2. Something accomplished with supreme ease

intransitive verb

1. To perform a cakewalk or execute similar movements
2. To accomplish with supreme ease

caking coal noun

A bituminous coal that fuses into a mass in burning

a piece of cake (informal)

Something very easy to do

cakes and ale

Vaguely, all the good things of life

go or sell like hot cakes see under hot¹

have one's cake and eat it or eat one's cake and have it

To have the advantage of both alternatives

his cake is dough

His hope has failed

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