[f. CAKE sb. + -Y1.]
1. In the form, or of the nature, of a cake.
a. 1556. Cranmer, Wks. (1846), II. 66. An horse, refusing to eat wafers so long as their caky god was among them.
1604. Hieron, Wks., I. 568. A priest … ore his head the wafer shakes … Meane while the vulgar in a maze Vpon the caky idoll gaze.
1813. J. Thomson, Lect. Inflam., 483. Livid blotches or wheals on the fleshy parts of the legs, under which hard caky substances are felt.
1860. O. W. Holmes, Elsie Venner (1887), 90. Charlottes, caky externally, pulpy within.
1869. London Soc., Christm. No. 49/1. Warm smells of a cakey description.
2. dial. Weak of intellect, silly.
1879. Shropsh. Word-bk.
