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English
Etymology
Blend of pie + cake.
Noun
pake (plural pakes)
- (informal) Synonym of piecake.
2014 July 1, Nancy Stohs, “Bake a pie in a cake to make a ‘pake,’ because why not?”, in The Brownsville Herald, volume 122, number 363, page C2:Cherry pie baked inside a chocolate cake, for a dandy Black Forest pake.
2014 November 21, The Garden Island, section “TGIFR!DAY” (volume 2, number 46), page 5:Pie specials include pumpkin, pumpkin crunch, pumpkin pecan, pumpkin haupia, gluten-free pumpkin pake (cake meets pie), pumpkin pake, cranberry walnut pudding, chocolate chip pecan and rum pecan.
2015 November 18, Patricia Corrigan, “Sweet! St. Louis thrives with pies”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 68, number 44, page 1B:We honor foot-high pie, oatmeal pecan pie, “pake” (that’s a pie baked inside a cake), apple green chili pecan pie, levee-high pie and even gooey butter cake pie.
Anagrams
Indonesian
Verb
pake
- Alternative form of pakai
Middle English
Noun
pake
- Alternative form of pak
Swahili
Adjective
pake
- Pa class inflected form of -ake.
West Frisian
Etymology
Possibly abbreviation of baby talk word papa with diminutive suffix -ke.
Pronunciation
Noun
pake c (plural paken, diminutive paakje)
- grandpa, grandfather
- Coordinate term: beppe
- old man
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pake”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
West Makian
Pronunciation
Adverb
pake
- an intensifier: very, really, etc.
- wolot nao ma imaulu pake ― that sea there is very deep
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics