Meaning

5 senses
  1. A small cake baked in a usually paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.

    Cupcake, Tassenkuchen

    кексkeks, капке́йкkapkéjk, пиро́жное-корзи́ночкаpiróžnoje-korzínočka

    кексиkeksy

    small cake baked in a muffin tin

  2. (slang)An attractive young woman.

    красо́ткаkrasótka, ко́шечкаkóšečka

  3. (slang)A weak or effeminate man.

  4. (informal)A term of endearment.

  5. (slang)An unskilled player or team, especially one expected to be easily defeated by a stronger opponent.

    Australia need a win to progress, but they have a cupcake in Italy for their last, so they're not likely to miss out.

Examples

102 sentences
  1. Aren't you going to eat that cupcake?

    Хіба ти не їстимеш цей кекс? — deniko

  2. I baked some cupcakes.

    Я спік кілька кексів. — deniko

  3. Do you like cupcakes?

    Ти любиш капкейки? — deniko

    ruТы любишь кексы? — Wezel

  4. Tom ate three of the cupcakes.

  5. Tom ate one of the cupcakes.

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
small cake:
Русский
By meaning 2
small cake:
attractive young woman:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
small cake:

Origin

From cup + cake.

From cup + cake.

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Forms

plural: cupcakes
Singularcupcake
Pluralcupcakes

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
term of endearment:cabbageB1
attractive young woman:babe
effeminate man:cockney

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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