pake
See also: pakë, pakę, pàke, pāke, and Pākē
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.
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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
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paːkə/
Noun
pake c (plural paken, diminutive paakje)
- grandpa, grandfather
- Coordinate term: beppe
- old man
Derived terms
- pakesizzer
Further reading
- “pake”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpa.ke/
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