cakeとは

語源 1

From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog (“ball-shaped object”) (compare Romanian gogoașă (“doughnut”) and gogă (“walnut, nut”); Lithuanian gúoge (“head of cabbage”), Albanian kokë (“head”). Related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche.

発音

• enPR: kāk, IPA^(key): /keɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

名詞

cake (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 cakes)

1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
2. A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.

   an oatmeal cake

   a johnnycake

3. A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.

   buckwheat cakes

4. A block of any of various dense materials.

   a cake of soap

   a cake of sand

   • Dryden

     Cakes of rusting ice come rolling down the flood.

5. (slang) A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake.
6. (slang) Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too, particularly regarding the UK’s approach to Brexit negotiations.
   • 2018, The Guardian, "UK's aspirations for post-Brexit trade deal an illusion, says Donald Tusk", Daniel Boffey, Peter Walker, Jennifer Rankin, and Heather Stewart, 23 February 2018

     "It looks like the cake [and eat it] philosophy is still alive." Quote attributed to Donald Tusk.

使用する際の注意点

• In North America, a biscuit is a small, soft baked bread similar to a scone but not sweet. In the United Kingdom, a biscuit is a small, crisp or firm, sweet baked good — the sort of thing which in North America is called a cookie. (Less frequently, British speakers refer to crackers as biscuits.) In North America, even small, layered baked sweets like Oreos are referred to as cookies, while in the UK, only those biscuits which have chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, or other things baked into them are also called cookies.
• Throughout the English-speaking world, thin, crispy, salty or savoury baked breads like these are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like these and these are wafers.
• Both the US and the UK distinguish crackers, wafers and cookies/biscuits from cakes: the former are generally hard or crisp and become soft when stale, while the latter is generally soft or moist and becomes hard when stale.

派生語

同意語

• (dessert): gâteau
• (block): block
• (easy task): see piece of cake

派生した語

• Assamese: কে’ক (kék)
• Dutch: kaak, cake (also keek, older also kaaks, keeks)
• Faroese: keks
• German: Keks
  • Polish: keks
  • Russian: кекс (keks)
  • Serbo-Croatian: kȅks, ке̏кс
• Icelandic: kex
• Nauruan: keik
• Japanese: ケーキ (kēki)
• Norwegian: kjeks
• Portuguese: queque
• Russian: кек (kek)
• Swedish: kex
  • Finnish: keksi

参考

• Category:Cakes and pastries

動詞

cake (三人称単数 現在形 cakes, 現在分詞 caking, 過去形および過去分詞形 caked)

1. (transitive) Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.

   His shoes are caked with mud.

2. To form into a cake, or mass.

同意語

• (coat with a crust of material): crust, encrust

動詞

cake (三人称単数 現在形 cakes, 現在分詞 caking, 過去形および過去分詞形 caked)

1. (Britain, 方言, obsolete, intransitive) To cackle like a goose.

アナグラム

• akçe