cake
/keɪk/ noun A1- A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. · an oatmeal cake· a johnnycake
- A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. · buckwheat cakes
- A block of any various dense materials. · a cake of soap· a cake of sand
- Synonym of money.
- Synonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full. · Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
- A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
Plural cakes
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The next variation which their visit afforded was produced by the entrance of servants with cold meat, cake, and a variety of all the finest fruits in season; but this did not take place till after many a significant look and smile from Mrs.
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants.
Which way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
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