Meaning of cupcake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
2. An attractive young woman.
   slang
3. A weak or effeminate man.
   slang
4. Term of endearment.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“But when he tasted a vanilla-frosted vanilla cupcake from the Magnolia Bakery in Greenwich Village in 2004, it changed his life. […] Members of Jordan’s royal family stop by the shop in jeans and sweatshirts, ordering boxes of cupcakes while their bodyguards wait outside.”

“Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.”

““Listen, cupcake,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—””

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