Blood and blackened remnants are caked on the bathroom floor.
Rain had fallen heavily overnight and the streets were caked in sludge.
And then there are the photographs: toddlers, teenagers, preschoolers—all caked in dirt, their eyes wide and dazed with trauma.
As for the infantrymen, when they come out of the trenches, they are caked in mud all over.
He was turbanless, shoeless, caked with dirt, and all but dead with rough handling.
When it came to grooming the mud was caked thick on all hides.
The soiled dishes, caked with hardened grease, made him sick.
They are brought in here just caked with mud from head to foot.
Of all the men in the group, he was the muddiest His clothes were caked with mud.
On the morrow the hair was caked so fast about his neck that it could only be freed by shearing it.
"thickly encrusted," 1922, past participle adjective from cake (v.).
c.1600, from cake (n.). Related: Caked; caking.
early 13c., from Old Norse kaka "cake," from West Germanic *kokon- (cf. Middle Dutch koke, Dutch koek, Old High German huohho, German Kuchen). Not now believed to be related to Latin coquere "to cook," as formerly supposed. Replaced its Old English cognate, coecel.
What man, I trow ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake and haue your cake? ["The Proverbs & Epigrams of John Heywood," 1562]Originally (until early 15c.) "a flat, round loaf of bread." Piece of cake "something easy" is from 1936. The let them eat cake story is found in Rousseau's "Confessions," in reference to an incident c.1740, long before Marie Antoinette, though it has been associated with her since c.1870; it apparently was a chestnut in the French royal family that had been told of other princesses and queens before her.
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