"thickly encrusted," 1922, past-participle adjective from cake (v.).
"to form into a cake" (transitive), c. 1600; "to concrete into a hard mass" (intransitive), 1610s; from cake (n.). Related: Caked; caking.
updated on December 16, 2012
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