Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. slang a lounge lizard This usage of the term dates from the 1920s, when it vied in popularity with 'sheik' to indicate a slick young Romeo who wows the flappers and likes the high life. A Cake-Eater, when he's not trolling for jazz-babies at the local speakeasy, likes to loiter at a girl's house and be pampered, especially by being served his sweetie's baked goods-- and of course some degree of sexual metaphor might be inferred.
- n. slang someone of upper-class background, or who has been excessively well-off
Etymologies
- From the 1922 song "I'm a Cake Eating Man": "I'm a cake-eating man,/ Eat my cake where I can;/ I like a dapper flapper that shows a naughty knee,/ Who dances naughty jazz and shakes a naughty lingerie./ I'm there with my shoepolish hair,/ For I'm a mama-loving, cookie-chewing cake-eating man." Also abbreviated as 'Caker'. Technically, the Cake-Eater was the natural mate to the Flapper, as the Sheik had his Sheba, though one can assume that there was a good deal of mixing amongst this amorous aggregation of 'flaming youth'. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My goal is to get purchased by either a cake-eater or another bakery for show.”
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“The cake-eater and the smoker show up when faced by temptation.”
“She once charged that I was an “aspiring cake-eater,” to which I vigorously defended myself.”
“I wonder though why "cake-eater" has two different definitions and wish her grandma would have given the definition of one of those definitions - "cake-eater = a harmless lounge lizard" ?”
“This really freaked me out when I first saw it - I thought that under the face was a little alien hand reaching out imploringly to the cake-eater.”
“Is it not the fact (gainsay me, cake-eater!) that, while whistlewhirling your crazy elegies around”
“While I did not play lacrosse, I did grow up a Caddyshack-quoting, Ralph Lauren-wearing cake-eater from a shiny northern Chicago suburb.”
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“Runner wasn't quite in when cake-eater applied the tag. maybe 6 inches off the plate.”
“( "What a cake-eater!" one of his dorm friends exclaimed.)”
“Sarah’s made use of the phrase “cake-eater” to a couple of times describe herself and her neighborhood.”
Lists
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old timey talk
Words or Sayings from the 1920's or whatever that no one really uses anymore (at least in that context).
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Are you from Pennsylvania?
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Olde Fashyned Slang
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minouchette a harmless lounge lizard Oct 8, 2010
dontcry This is a common term in Western, PA. It applies to the "white bread" group of folks. For instance, my Father, who is Dutch/Scotch, is a cake-eater. My Mother, who is Syrian/Serbian, is not. Sep 11, 2009