cakeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).

発音

• enPR: kāk, IPA: /keɪk/, [ˈk̟ʰeɪ̯k̚]
• 韻: -eɪk

名詞

cake (countable and uncountable, plural cakes)

1. A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.

   Synonym: gateau

   • 2025 June 13, Rhys Southan, Helena Ward, Jen Semler, “A timing problem for instrumental convergence”, in Philosophical Studies, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her.

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 various dense materials.

   Synonym: block

   a cake of soap

   a cake of sand

   • 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Cakes of rustling ice come rolling down the flood.

5. (slang) Ellipsis of piece of cake: a trivially easy task or responsibility.

   Synonyms: piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

   • 1996, “Ready or Not”, in The Score, performed by Fugees:

     Now that I escape, sleepwalk awake / Those who could relate know the world ain't cake

6. (slang) Money.
7. Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too.
   • 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.

8. (slang) A pair of buttocks, especially one that is exceptionally plump or full.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks

   Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.

9. (pyrotechnics) A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.

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 some cases, it can be hard (see dog biscuit). 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, typically 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 in this image (saltine crackers) are called crackers, while thin, crispy, sweet baked goods like in this image (Nilla Wafers) and this image (wafer sticks) 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

派生した語

From the plural cakes:

参考

• Category:Cakes and pastries

動詞

cake (third-person singular simple present cakes, present participle caking, simple past and past participle caked)

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

   Synonyms: crust, encrust

   His shoes are caked with mud.

2. (transitive) To form into a cake, or mass.
3. (intransitive) Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.

派生語

• anticaking
• cake up

Further reading

• cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:cake on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• ecka, akçe, EAKC, ace K

語源

From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkaːk(ə)/

名詞

cake (plural cakes)

1. A cake (any sort of flat doughy food):
   1. (medicine) A cake prepared to cure disease or illness.
   2. (Christianity, rare) A communion wafer.
2. (rare) A lump, boil, or ball.

派生語

• pancake

派生した語

• English: cake (see there for further descendants)
• Geordie: kyek
• Scots: cake, cyaak, kyaak
• Yola: caake, kaake
• → Irish: cáca
• →⇒ Welsh: cacen

参照

• “cāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 5 July 2018.