cheesecake

From Middle English chesekake; equivalent to cheese +‎ cake. Compare chess cake.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiːzˌkeɪk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃizˌkeɪk/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛzˌkeɪk/, /ˈt͡ʃɪzˌkeɪk/[1][2]

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cheesecake (countable and uncountable, plural cheesecakes)

1. (countable and uncountable) A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.

   Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.

2. (countable and uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).[3]
3. (uncountable) Imagery of scantily clad, sexually attractive young women; pin-ups.

   Synonym: leg art

   Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.

• (photography): beefcake

• cheesecakey
• chookie
• New York cheesecake

• → Japanese: チーズケーキ
• → Korean: 치즈케이크 (chijeukeikeu)

Borrowed from English cheesecake.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈskejk/, /t͡ʃiˈskɛjk/
• Rhymes: -ejk, -ɛjk

cheesecake f (invariable)

1. cheesecake (type of pie)

• torta al formaggio

Unadapted borrowing from English cheesecake.

cheesecake m (plural cheesecakes)

1. cheesecake (type of pie)

   Synonym: bolo de queijo

Unadapted borrowing from English cheesecake.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiskeik/ [ˈt͡ʃis.kei̯k]
• Rhymes: -iskeik

cheesecake m (plural cheesecakes)

1. cheesecake

   Synonym: tarta de queso

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Unadapted borrowing from English cheesecake. First attested in the 1970s.[1]

cheesecake c

1. A cheesecake; a pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese.
   • 1948 March 27, Expressen‎:

     […] flaska malted milk och en bit cheesecake. Automaterna är också utmärkta […]

     […] bottle of malted milk and a piece of cheesecake. The vending machines are also excellent […]

   • 2006, Peter Englund, Spegelscener‎, page 78:

     Efter en sen men utmärkt middag i skymningen – grillad kotlett och hummer, cheesecake till efterrätt – hamnar vi dästa i ett av logementen, och på en dammig TV ställd i en improviserad bokhylla gjord av gamla proviantlådor tittar vi på Ridley Scotts Gladiator.

     After a late but excellent dinner at dusk — grilled chops and lobster, cheesecake for dessert — we finally end up in one of the barracks, and on a dusty TV set in a makeshift bookcase made of old provisions boxes, we watch Ridley Scott's Gladiator.

• ostkaka (“curd cake”)