Definitions
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- noun 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. - noun slang someone of upper-class background, or who has been excessively well-off
Etymologies
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Examples
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My goal is to get purchased by either a cake-eater or another bakery for show.
The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The cake-eater and the smoker show up when faced by temptation.
Song of My Selves 2008
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The cake-eater and the smoker show up when faced by temptation.
Song of My Selves 2008
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The cake-eater and the smoker show up when faced by temptation.
Song of My Selves 2008
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The cake-eater and the smoker show up when faced by temptation.
Song of My Selves 2008
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She once charged that I was an “aspiring cake-eater,” to which I vigorously defended myself.
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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" ?
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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.
E.T. is back... Jen 2008
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Is it not the fact (gainsay me, cake-eater!) that, while whistlewhirling your crazy elegies around
Finnegans Wake 2006
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While I did not play lacrosse, I did grow up a Caddyshack-quoting, Ralph Lauren-wearing cake-eater from a shiny northern Chicago suburb.
Grownup Training Blank Slate Special Report: Grownup Training Brett Nelson 2006
dontcry commented on the word cake-eater
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.
September 11, 2009
minouchette commented on the word cake-eater
a harmless lounge lizard
October 8, 2010