Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small cake baked in a cup-shaped container.
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- noun A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
- noun slang An attractive young woman.
- noun dated Used as a term of endearment
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- noun small cake baked in a muffin tin
Etymologies
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Examples
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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).
Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010
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And the cupcake is the best with chocolate buttercream.
Flirty Aprons’ Frosted Cupcake Apron, reviewed - and a giveaway! | Baking Bites 2010
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Personally, I think that the line in between a cake and a cupcake is a little fuzzy at this scale.
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The only thing better than a cupcake is a cupcake with a rich cream filling.
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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).
Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010
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My daughters always say that a cupcake is the perfect dessert.
Cupcake Poll #1 2007
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This cupcake is a chocolate mud mini cupcake with acqua blue icing and hand made flower.
Archive 2007-09-01 Anne-Marie 2007
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This cupcake is a chocolate mud mini cupcake with acqua blue icing and hand made flower.
Retro Cupcake Anne-Marie 2007
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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".
The truth about men, women and food Eva Wiseman 2010
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Part of the point of a cupcake is that it is a cup-sized cake.
reesetee commented on the word cupcake
"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
September 25, 2007
uselessness commented on the word cupcake
We have our own dessert!
September 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word cupcake
I knew you'd catch that reference, uselessness. ;-)
September 27, 2007
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word cupcake
Adorable!
April 23, 2010