cake

keik 1. noun

1) (a food made by baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar etc: a piece of cake; a plate of cream cakes; a Christmas cake.) kake

2) (a piece of other food pressed into shape: fishcakes; oatcakes.) -kake, -bolle

3) (a flattened hard mass: a cake of soap.) stykke, blokk

2. verb

(to cover in the form of a dried mass: His shoes were caked with mud.) dekke, klumpe seg

kake

I

subst. \/keɪk\/

1) kake

• birthday cake

2) stykke, blokk

• a cake of soap

• a cake of wax

3) skorpe

cakes and ale (gammeldags) vellevned, gode dager

demand one's slice\/share of the cake (overført) kreve sin del av kaka to

have one's cake and eat it (too) få både i pose og sekk

a piece of cake (hverdagslig) lett jobb, plankekjøring, lett\/smal sak

sell like hot cakes gå som varmt hvetebrød

take the cake (hverdagslig) ta kaka, slå alt, ta prisen

II

verb \/keɪk\/

sette skorpe, skorpe seg, størkne

be caked with something forklaring: være full av\/dekket med noe som er størknet

• her shoes were caked with mud

skoene hennes var dekket med størknet gjørme