CUPCAKE

cupcake

(noun) small cake baked in a muffin tin

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

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.

(slang) A weak or effeminate man.

(dated) Term of endearment

Synonyms

• (small cake): fairy cake

• (effeminate man): cockney, pansy, sissy; see also effeminate man

• (attractive young woman): babe, fox, stunner; see also beautiful woman

• (term of endearment): cabbage, heartmate, sweetie; see also sweetheart

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.

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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