cupcake
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʌpkeɪk/
Noun
cupcake (plural cupcakes)
- A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
- (slang) An attractive young woman.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 604:
- Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 604:
- (slang) A weak or effeminate man.
- (dated) Used as a term of endearment
- 2010, Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match
- “Listen, cupcake,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”
- 2010, Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match
Synonyms
- (small cake): fairy cake
Translations
small cake
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attractive young woman
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weak or effeminate man
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term of endearment
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Verb
cupcake (third-person singular simple present cupcakes, present participle cupcaking, simple past and past participle cupcaked)
- (slang, intransitive) To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.
- Carlos Bayne, Napkin Nights: The Crunk Chronicles
- Let's review the tale of the tape: My best friend is being held hostage, I boosted his ride and mobile, then cupcaked with a heater-packing widow-maker.
- 2011, Deontra Woods, Blood, Sweat and Tears, page 102:
- I watched Brian as he drove off down the street. I turned and went back inside the studio and found Len at my desk. “I saw you and Brian cupcaking out there.”
- 2013, Michelle Robinson, Right Before My Eyes II, page 100:
- But I figured Najah was cupcaking with Johan, Chelsea was eating something that didn't match while Greg rubbed her feet, and Kalena wasn't in a space to talk or listen.
- 2014, Zaneeya S., Overcoming My Past, page 170:
- She said, “You're always Cupcaking.” I replied, “I'm not cupcaking. I'm enjoying my conversation so hush.” David and I would stay on the phone all night and talk. It was normal for us.
- 2015, Mahalia Levey, Promiscuous Wolf
- “Luck is cupcaking on Myanna.”
His eyebrows shot up. “Cupcaking?”
“Old man.” She giggled. “Crushing. Your boy has a big time crush on Myanna.”
- “Luck is cupcaking on Myanna.”
- Carlos Bayne, Napkin Nights: The Crunk Chronicles
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