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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People have pretty well forgotten my other mistakes--the liniment cake and setting Diana drunk and flying into a temper with Mrs.
Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs’ bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.
You know I never use it except for the hired man’s porridge or black fruit cake.
Jerry’s gone and I’ve made my cake long ago.
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