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  • 41cake — See: EAT ONE S CAKE AND HAVE IT TOO, PAT A CAKE, TAKE THE CAKE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 42cake — See: EAT ONE S CAKE AND HAVE IT TOO, PAT A CAKE, TAKE THE CAKE …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 43cake — 1. noun /keɪk/ a) A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.<!encyclopedic info, and definitions of other words! A gâteau or sponge cake includes a chemical leavening… …

    Wiktionary

  • 44cake — [13] Originally, cake was a term for a flat round loaf of bread (it is this ‘shape’ element in its meaning that lies behind more modern usages such as ‘cake of soap’). It is not until the 15th century that we find it being applied to foodstuffs… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 45cake — See: eat one s cake and have it too, pat a cake, take the cake …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 46cake —   Mea ono (for various kinds, see Haw. Eng. entry and entries that follow it).    ♦ Chinese meat cake, pepeiao.    ♦ Fig cake, pa i hua piku.    ♦ Flour cake, pa i palaoa …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 47cake — [13] Originally, cake was a term for a flat round loaf of bread (it is this ‘shape’ element in its meaning that lies behind more modern usages such as ‘cake of soap’). It is not until the 15th century that we find it being applied to foodstuffs… …

    Word origins

  • 48cake — fish cake (1) fish flesh mixed with potatoes, seasoning and sometimes eggs, butter and onions and formed into cakes or patties and fried in fat) fish cake (2) fish before drying in the manufacturing process for fish meal) …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 49Cake —    Cakes made of wheat or barley were offered in the temple. They were salted, but unleavened (Ex. 29:2; Lev. 2:4). In idolatrous worship thin cakes or wafers were offered to the queen of heaven (Jer. 7:18; 44:19).    Pancakes are described in 2… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 50cake — adj Easy, simple. I didn t need to study so hard for that test. It was cake or a cake course. 1970s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang