cupcake

English

Etymology

cup +‎ cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkʌpkeɪk/

Noun

cupcake (plural cupcakes)

1. A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
2. (slang) An attractive young woman.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 604:

     Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.

3. (dated) Used as a term of endearment

Translations

small cake

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紙杯蛋糕 (cmn), 纸杯蛋糕 (cmn) (zhǐbēi dàngāo), 杯形蛋糕 (cmn) (bēixíng dàngāo)

• Finnish: vuokaleivos
• Japanese: カップケーキ (ja) (kappukēki)

• Russian: кекс (ru) (keks) m
• Spanish: magdalena f (Spain), ponqué m (Venezuela), quequi m (Mexico), quequito m (Peru), pastel de taza (es)
• Swahili: keki za vikombe (sw)

slang:attractive young woman

• Finnish: namupala (fi)