caked Definition

cake
noun

1. A solid food made by baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, etc.
2. An individually baked portion of this food.
3. A portion of some other food pressed into a particular shape.

Example: fish cake
4. A solid block of a particular substance, eg soap, chocolate, etc.

verb caked, caking

intr
1. To dry as a thick hard crust.
2. To cover in a thick crust.

Example: skin caked with blood

Idiom: have one's cake and eat it

colloq
To enjoy the advantages of two alternative courses of action, usually as an unattainable ideal since it is impossible to do both at the same time.

Idiom: a piece of cake

colloq
A very easy task.

Idiom: sell like hot cakes (go like hot cakes)

Said especially of a new product: to be bought enthusiastically in large numbers.

Etymology: 13c: from Norse kaka.