Definitions for the word "cake" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To form into a cake, or mass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. i.
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. i.
To cackle as a goose.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 mixture of flour, butter, eggs, sugar, etc., baked in the oven and often iced and decorated. 2 other food in a flat round shape (fish cake). 3 flattish compact mass (cake of soap). v. (-king) 1 form into a compact mass. 2 (usu. Foll. By with) cover (with a hard or sticky mass). have one''s cake and eat it colloq. Enjoy both of two mutually exclusive alternatives. A piece of cake colloq. Something easily achieved. Sell (or go) like hot cakes colloq. Be sold (or go) quickly; be popular. [old norse]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. slang
a “flat;” a soft or doughy person, a fool.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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