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Synonyms for cake

Grammar : Noun
Spell : keyk
Phonetic Transcription : keɪk

Définition of cake

Origin :
  • early 13c., from Old Norse kaka "cake," from West Germanic *kokon- (cf. Middle Dutch koke, Dutch koek, Old High German huohho, German Kuchen). Not now believed to be related to Latin coquere "to cook," as formerly supposed. Replaced its Old English cognate, coecel.
  • What man, I trow ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake and haue your cake? ["The Proverbs & Epigrams of John Heywood," 1562]
  • Originally (until early 15c.) "a flat, round loaf of bread." Piece of cake "something easy" is from 1936. The let them eat cake story is found in Rousseau's "Confessions," in reference to an incident c.1740, long before Marie Antoinette, though it has been associated with her since c.1870; it apparently was a chestnut in the French royal family that had been told of other princesses and queens before her.
  • noun bar of something
Example sentences :
  • Its texture is practically the same as that of the other cake.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • They should be applied to the cake in the same way as icings.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Only the whites of the eggs are used, and so the cake is white in color.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 4 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • It is used for the icing of cake or the making of French candies.
  • Extract from : « Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 1 » by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
  • Mom Beck had stepped into the pantry for more eggs for the cake she was making.
  • Extract from : « The Little Colonel » by Annie Fellows Johnston
  • It is needless to say that he won; and the cake duly came back to him.
  • Extract from : « Camps, Quarters and Casual Places » by Archibald Forbes
  • Heap it all over the pile of cake, so as entirely to cover it.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • The fire should then be withdrawn, and the cake allowed to get cold in the oven.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Wrapped in a thick cloth, this cake will keep soft for a week.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • You may make maccaroons with icing that is left from a cake.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie

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