breadstuff vs cake

breadstuff

noun
  • Bread or bread-like baked goods of any sort. 

  • Any of the ingredients for making bread, especially as commodities in trade and especially the principal ones, namely, flour/meal or the grain with which to mill it (such as wheat, oats, rye, or any other cereal grain). 

cake

noun
  • A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough. 

  • A buttock, especially one that is exceptionally plump. 

  • Money. 

  • A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing. 

  • A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake. 

  • A multi-shot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse. 

  • A block of any of various dense materials. 

  • A trivially easy task or responsibility; from a piece of cake. 

  • Used to describe the doctrine of having one's cake and eating it too. 

verb
  • Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. 

  • Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard. 

  • To form into a cake, or mass. 

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