caky

Resembling cake in texture.

Adjective

  1. Resembling cake in texture.
    • […] they are converted into globules or plates of a faint luster, which, partly coalescing, represent irregular, caky masses. - 1883, Carl Heitzmann, Microscopical Morphology on the Animal Body in Health and Disease:

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *kakǭ Old Norse kakabor. Middle English cake English cake Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English caky From cake + -y.

Forms

cakier cakiest cakey

Derived

cakily cakiness