Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small cake baked in a cup-shaped container.
Wiktionary
- n. A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
- n. slang An attractive young woman.
- n. dated Used as a term of endearment
WordNet 3.0
- n. small cake baked in a muffin tin
Etymologies
- cup + cake. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Personally, I think that the line in between a cake and a cupcake is a little fuzzy at this scale.”
“The only thing better than a cupcake is a cupcake with a rich cream filling.”
“For a fancy cupcake, the marginal cost of producing another cupcake is the cost of the ingredients in that cupcake (not the 1000lbs of butter or flour purchased in the last delivery from the supplier), plus the cost of labor required to make that cupcake (plus, if one were to quibble, the cost of things like utilities and rent required for the fancy bakery to stay open long enough to make it).”
“And the cupcake is the best with chocolate buttercream.”
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“This cupcake is a chocolate mud mini cupcake with acqua blue icing and hand made flower.”
“My daughters always say that a cupcake is the perfect dessert.”
“If the pastel-coloured cupcake is the modern symbol of feminine eating, then perhaps the Pot Noodle Doner Kebab is today's totem of manliness – its manufacturer Unilever describes it as "the ultimate man-food snack".”
“Part of the point of a cupcake is that it is a cup-sized cake.”
“After some self-talk, a Clif Shot, and an amazing cupcake from the team heads at My Wife Inc.,”
“Swirl chocolate cake and yellow butter cake in cupcake liner.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cupcake’.
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
piggy, toesy woesies, snurfle, wiggly, chomp, lewispoo, dobby, dunderhead, cupcake, mumbo jumbo, wigglebop, scuttle and 99 more...
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Beautiful Compound Words
aftermath, afterthought, butterfly, campfire, colorblind, backhand, crossword, cupcake, dollhouse, drawbridge, dreadlock, dreamscape and 73 more...
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Cute
My boyfriend and I started this list my Junior or Senior year of High school. It hasn't been added to in a while. It was a list of words that we thought sounded universally cute or had universal as...
cupcake, doilee, mitten, kitten, squiggle, button, cheek, papoose, pupa, sleep, cookie, treat and 45 more...
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Let them eat cake.
cake, cakes, Cake, bundt cake, pancake, cheesecake, yellowcake uranium, urinal cake, pound cake, birthday cake, wedding cake, sponge cake and 62 more...
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Nicknames you shouldn't give to an ax...
primrose, snookums, lavender, piglet, rainbow sunshine, kitten, fuzzy, sweetie, wiggles, care bear, love-a-lot, cheery and 87 more...
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Let Them Eat Cake...
Tasty confectionery trinkets for the listless masses.
petit four, bon bon, scone, crumpet, meringue, cupcake, beignet, tart, tiramisu, ladyfingers, fritter, crepe and 44 more...
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Isabel's list
intrepid, faux, benevolent, quantifiability, disposition, quantum, tremulous, cupcake, fantasia, ailurophobia, somnambulist
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The sweetest thing.
A spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down!
sugary, sweetness, fragrant, cloying, saccharine, honey, luscious, nectar, pudding, pastry, bittersweet, cupcake and 44 more...
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Recently Licked
Blame bilby. And dontcry.
cupcake, plate, fufluns, your finger befor..., postage stamp, lips, paul mcclosky, elbow, ice cream bowl, side of coffee cup, wooden spoon, teeth and 23 more...
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Words that should be heard in songs m...
Inspired by PossibleUnderscore's list of words overused in modern pop music.
giant squid, bamboo, colonic, herbivore, raptor, dodecahedron, largesse, sinuses, dim sum, carburetor, transubstantiation, wife and 54 more...
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International House of Fufluns
Fufluns, as everyone knows, are the tasty treats that are great warm, cold, covered in sprinkles, or thrown at one's friends. Here's a list of what fufluns are called in various places around the w...
Fufluns, fufluns, fufuns, muffin, cupcake, quesadilla, Runza, pasty, savory hand pie, hand pie, pierogie, pan de fuf and 33 more...
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pet lover's names
Pet names that lovers have for their lover. Comment if you wish, but there is no need to explain! Note: NOT the names of their pets. Even if their pets are their lovers, and vice versa.
nettie, molly, babes, honey, dear one, sweetheart, bird, birdy, sweetie, sweetie pie, cupcake, dearheart and 14 more...
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capitalcreative's Words
deviltry, visceral, cassanova, assuage, genesis, hot minute, osmosis, wistful, sublime, loathe, farfetched, newfangled and 283 more...
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food words
weetabix, blancmange, shandy, meringue, allspice, pavlova, quiche, caster sugar, suet, moonshine, turnip, swede and 93 more...
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Foodie
As much fun to say as they are to eat.
blueberry, cider, almond, apricot, asparagus, banana, fudge, foldover, flapjacks, filbert, fig, biscuit and 217 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cupcake.
PossibleUnderscore Adorable!
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Apr 23, 2010
reesetee I knew you'd catch that reference, uselessness. ;-) Sep 26, 2007
uselessness We have our own dessert! Sep 26, 2007
reesetee "Cupcake is a term of endearment, but it can also be a rather mean-spirited word. "Cupcake teams" in sports are said to be soft and easily crushed. As food, though, cupcakes are democratic; everyone gets one. And they are libertarian; individual and independent compared with communal cakes, which may not have enough slices for everyone." --"Don’t Even Think of Touching That Cupcake," NYT, Sept. 23, 2007
Sep 25, 2007