Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cake walk

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English

Syllables: cake walk
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.

noun

From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number wins a cake.

noun

Something extremely easy.

Example Sentences

"It is called the cake-walk. A large cake is prepared for the occasion, and, when the invited guests arrive on the gala evening, each young man selects a partner for the walk. After a great deal of merriment and confusion, the couples take their places on the floor and begin to march around the room singing a hymn (for the church-members are not allowed to indulge in secular music) to a good marching tune, while the matrons and married men look on and criticise the promenaders, join in the chorus, and beat time with hands and feet. When tired at last of the walking-match, the cake is duly awarded to the most graceful couple, by whom it is carried home after the supper which closes the entertainment."
"... each of the marchers took his place beside the number nearest to him."
"The three mile run was a cake walk for "Blondy" Romig, of Penn State."

Inflected Forms

cake walks (plural) cake-walk (alternative)

Questions

What does cake walk mean?: A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century.

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