cake : Idioms & Phrases

• a task easily accomplished.

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• an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague.

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• noun a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
  angel cake.
  

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• noun a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
  angel cake.
  

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• noun moist spicy cake containing applesauce
  

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• noun corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern)
  corn tash; ashcake.
  

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• noun decorated cake served at a birthday party
  

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• noun a pancake made with buckwheat flour
  

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• noun a commercial mix for making a cake
  

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• (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea .

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Cak"ing coal`

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1. See Coal.

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• noun a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes
  

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• a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior.

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• noun very light cake
  

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• noun cake containing chocolate
  

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• noun a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas
  

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• noun cake containing shredded coconut in batter and frosting
  

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• noun usually made of flaked salt cod and mashed potatoes
  codfish ball.
  

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• noun a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
  coffeecake.
  

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• noun baked in a pan or on a griddle (southern and midland)
  

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• a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake.

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• noun the solid matter remaining after oil has been pressed from cottonseeds
  cotton cake.
  

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• noun the solid matter remaining after oil has been pressed from cottonseeds
  cotton cake.
  

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• noun cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour
  

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• noun very dark chocolate cake
  devil's food.
  

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• a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. Halliwell.

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• noun a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
  

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• noun a fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes
  fish ball.
  

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• noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
  flapjack; flannel-cake; hotcake; griddlecake; flapcake; pancake; battercake; flannel cake.
  

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• noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
  flapjack; flannel-cake; hotcake; griddlecake; flapcake; pancake; battercake; flannel cake.
  

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• oaten cake. Piers Plowman.

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• noun a spicy cake partially sweetened with honey
  

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• noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
  flapjack; flannel-cake; hotcake; griddlecake; flapcake; pancake; battercake; flannel cake.
  

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• noun ice cream molded to look like a cake
  ice-cream cake.
  

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• noun ice cream molded to look like a cake
  ice-cream cake.
  

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• noun cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
  johnny cake; johnnycake.
  

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• noun cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
  johnny cake; johnnycake.
  

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• Scotland.

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• noun cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting
  

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• the solid mass or cake which remains when oil is expressed.

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• noun a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine
  Madeira sponge.
  

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• noun made of light and dark batter very lightly blended
  

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Mill"-cake` noun

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1. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

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• noun residue after oil is pressed from neem seeds
  

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• noun mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock
  

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• the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes.

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• noun any undertaking that is easy to do
  picnic; walkover; duck soup; breeze; child's play; cinch; snap; pushover.
  
  • marketing this product will be no picnic

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• noun rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour
  

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• noun moist cake containing prunes that have been made into a puree
  

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• the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the seed.

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• noun a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock
  

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• (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process.

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• noun a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon
  seedcake.
  

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• noun form of johnnycake
  

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• noun batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top
  skillet cake.
  

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• noun cake flavored with spices
  

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• noun a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening
  

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• a kind of sweet cake which is light and spongy.

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• verb rank first; used often in a negative context
  
  • He takes the cake for chutzpah!

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• noun a trifle soaked in wine and decorated with almonds and candied fruit
  

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• to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected.

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Tough"-cake` noun

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1. See Tough-pitch (b).

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Twelfth", cake` noun

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1. An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

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• noun batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top
  skillet cake.
  

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• a sweet, thin cake. Shak.

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• noun a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception
  bridecake.
  

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• noun cake made without egg yolks
  

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• noun small cake of compressed moist yeast
  

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• a mealy cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeast plant, and used as a conveniently transportable substitute for yeast.

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