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pound cake en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From pound (“unit of weight”) + cake.

Meanings

1. (US, countable, uncountable) A dense yellow cake, the traditional recipe for which consists of equal quantities (nominally one pound) of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.
   • Pound cakes, butter cakes with a tender fine crumb, are English in origin. In the 1700s and 1800s, the basic cake formula was based on the pound cake—butter, sugar, flour, and eggs in equal proportions by weight, with no chemical leavening added. 2002, Greg Patent, Baking in America, page 159:
   • Satisfied her aunt had things under control, Addy put on the coffee and sliced and arranged the pound cake on a cookie sheet. 2011, Lexi George, Demon Hunting in Dixie, unnumbered page:
   • But when I got to Anita Bryant′s pound cake, I stopped looking. Her recipe is my favorite so far. The cream isn′t quite authentic—real pound cakes are supposed to contain only butter, sugar, eggs and flour—but it does make the cake′s texture meltier. 1993, Ann Hodgman, Beat This! Cookbook, published 1999, page 166:
2. (countable, slang, uncountable) A term of attraction or desire.
   • She's a cute little pound cake.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) A butt cheek.

Forms

Coordinates

sponge cake

Descendants

panqué

Translations (16)

fr quatre-quarts (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · he עוּגַת פָּאוּנְד (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · de Rührkuchen (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · da pund-til-pund-kage (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · es panqué (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · ru фу́нтовый кекс (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · fa کیک پوند (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · ko 파운드 케이크 (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · is sandkaka (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · cy teisen driphwys (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · it torta quattro quarti (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · ja パウンドケーキ (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · pl babka piaskowa (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · es queque (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · cmn 磅蛋糕 (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar) · es ponqué (dense yellow cake made from equal quantities of butter, eggs, flour and sugar)