Cake:
(a) soft sweet food baked with flour, etc.
(b) flat piece of something (c) (sell) like hot cakes – very quickly (d) have one's cake and eat it too – have the advantages of something without the disadvantages that go with it (e) piece of cake – something very easy to do (f) cover thickly
Carrot:
(a) the nutritious, orange to yellow root of a plant of the parsley family, eaten raw or cooked
(b) something hoped for or promised as a lure or incentive (c) to treat (furs) with mercuric nitrate preparatory to felting (d) carrot and stick – reward and punishment used as persuasive measures
Cheese-cake:
(a) cake in a sweet pastry case which contains soft cheese
(b) pictures of women with few clothes on
Chest-nut:
(a) kind of smooth red-brown nut
(b) red-brown colour (c) joke or story so old and familiar that it is no longer funny or interesting
Chip:
(a) thin piece of food
(b) small piece broken off (c) place from which this was broken (d) small piece of material on which an integrated circuit is formed (e) flat plastic object used for representing money in certain games (f) a chip off the old block – a person very like their father in character (g) have a chip on one's shoulder – be quarrelsome or easily offended, as a result of feeling badly treated (h) when the chips are down – when a very important point is reached (i) chip in – add (one's share of money)
Chocolate:
(a) solid brown substance eaten as candy
(b) small candy covered with this (c) hot drink made from this (d) dark-brown colour
Chop:
(a) piece of lamb or pork with a bone in it
(b) quick cutting blow (c) cut with a heavy tool (d) (something) for the chop – (something) is going to be stopped or closed (e) chop and change – changing minds about what to do or how to act
Clove:
(a) dried flower of a tropical tree used in cooking
(b) a small part of a garlic bulb (c) divide or make by a cutting blow
Cookie:
(a) small sweet cake
(b) person
Cream:
(a) thick liquid that rises to the top of the milk
(b) soft mixture like this (c) best people or thing (d) yellow-white colour (e) make into a soft mixture (f) take cream from the surface of (milk) (g) defeat (h) cream off – take the best part
Crepe:
(a) very thin pancake
(b) cloth, paper or rubber with a lined and folded surface
Curry:
(a) Indian dish of meat, vegetables, etc. with a hot taste
(b) make into curry (c) curry favour – try to win approval dishonestly
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(a) soft sweet food baked with flour, etc.
(b) flat piece of something (c) (sell) like hot cakes – very quickly (d) have one's cake and eat it too – have the advantages of something without the disadvantages that go with it (e) piece of cake – something very easy to do (f) cover thickly
Carrot:
(a) the nutritious, orange to yellow root of a plant of the parsley family, eaten raw or cooked
(b) something hoped for or promised as a lure or incentive (c) to treat (furs) with mercuric nitrate preparatory to felting (d) carrot and stick – reward and punishment used as persuasive measures
Cheese-cake:
(a) cake in a sweet pastry case which contains soft cheese
(b) pictures of women with few clothes on
Chest-nut:
(a) kind of smooth red-brown nut
(b) red-brown colour (c) joke or story so old and familiar that it is no longer funny or interesting
Chip:
(a) thin piece of food
(b) small piece broken off (c) place from which this was broken (d) small piece of material on which an integrated circuit is formed (e) flat plastic object used for representing money in certain games (f) a chip off the old block – a person very like their father in character (g) have a chip on one's shoulder – be quarrelsome or easily offended, as a result of feeling badly treated (h) when the chips are down – when a very important point is reached (i) chip in – add (one's share of money)
Chocolate:
(a) solid brown substance eaten as candy
(b) small candy covered with this (c) hot drink made from this (d) dark-brown colour
Chop:
(a) piece of lamb or pork with a bone in it
(b) quick cutting blow (c) cut with a heavy tool (d) (something) for the chop – (something) is going to be stopped or closed (e) chop and change – changing minds about what to do or how to act
Clove:
(a) dried flower of a tropical tree used in cooking
(b) a small part of a garlic bulb (c) divide or make by a cutting blow
Cookie:
(a) small sweet cake
(b) person
Cream:
(a) thick liquid that rises to the top of the milk
(b) soft mixture like this (c) best people or thing (d) yellow-white colour (e) make into a soft mixture (f) take cream from the surface of (milk) (g) defeat (h) cream off – take the best part
Crepe:
(a) very thin pancake
(b) cloth, paper or rubber with a lined and folded surface
Curry:
(a) Indian dish of meat, vegetables, etc. with a hot taste
(b) make into curry (c) curry favour – try to win approval dishonestly
Posted by Jade Dame
[To be continued]
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