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cupcake

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
ˈkʌpkeɪk

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.
  3. A weak or effeminate man.
  4. Term of endearment.

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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—””

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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