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Definition of Cakey
1. tending to form lumps [adj CAKIER, CAKIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cakey
Literary usage of Cakey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"This latter ap|>ears as a soft black mud near the water's edge, but further away
is hard and cakey, being traversed by cracks running in all directions. ..."
2. Our Tropical Possessions in Malayan India: Being a Descriptive Account of by John Cameron (1865)
"A sort of hammock of white cloth is hung up with a stick across the centre to
distend it; into this hammock the flour or cakey matter is cast while still a ..."
3. The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From My Private Journal by Isabel Burton (1876)
"The ground is covered with dry, cakey mud. ... The water trickling from beneath
this cakey mud disappears under big stones; then it bubbles up, ..."
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