koek

To the Dutch word for “cake,” koek, the suffix -je had been added to mean that the koekje, pronounced “KOOK-yieh,” was a “little cake,” something that might have been called a cakie or a caken, or even a cakeling or cakelette, had it first been named in English.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

To the Dutch word for “cake,” koek, the suffix -je had been added to mean that the koekje, pronounced “KOOK-yieh,” was a “little cake,” something that might have been called a cakie or a caken, or even a cakeling or cakelette, had it first been named in English.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Wikipedia: A koeksister or koesister comes from the Dutch word koekje, the diminutive of koek meaning “cake”.

itti bitti birdwatching - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

April 5, 2008 at 5:11 pm ai AM teh golden koek kan!

come on… take a coke - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

April 4, 2008 at 12:30 pm ai will shurlee cruch hoo eber gotz dat pikshur ov mee and posteded it awn ICHC wif teh capshunz askin foar a pepzee! koek rulz!

Stand back, Flossie - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

There was the doughty doughnut, the tender oly koek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole family of cakes.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

We were busy all evening baking vet-koek (a kind of scone fried in lard), as we had received the order to be ready to leave the following morning at one o'clock, and to take provisions sufficient for two days.

On Commando Dietlof Van Warmelo 1919

There was the doughty dough-nut, the tenderer oly koek, and the crisp and crumbling cruller; sweet cakes and short cakes, ginger cakes and honey cakes, and the whole family of cakes.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1917

There was a little paper of candy, one of raisins, another of nuts, a red apple, an olie-koek, and a bright silver quarter of a dollar in the toe.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

I had brought in my pocket a lump of roster-koek (a lump of unleavened dough, flattened out and roasted on a gridiron).

Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer 1899