cake-eater
cake-eater noun: a well-off person who indulges himself or herself; a playboy or playgirl.
Noun
cake-eater (plural cake-eaters)
- A well-off person who indulges himself or herself; a playboy or playgirl.
- And you fellows, if you find some cake-eaters trying to take advantage of your sister, what are you going to do?1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 21, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan
- "Nowadays, these cake-eaters all died young. They had no teeth. They all went to doctors who fixed teeth. But still they died young and without their teeth."1956, Joseph Caruso, The Priest, →ISBN, page 158
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cake, eater.
- If ever there was a birthday in the home she would bake a special cake for the occasion, with the result that very few of our inmates lasted for more than a year. I myself am no great cake-eater, and I made a special point of keeping my birthday secret.1965, Chaim Bermant, Berl Make Tea, Chapman and Hall, page 12
Forms of cake-eater
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Questions about cake-eater
- What does cake-eater mean?
- Cake-eater means a well-off person who indulges himself or herself; a playboy or playgirl.
- What part of speech is cake-eater?
- Cake-eater is a noun.
- What is the plural of cake-eater?
- The plural of cake-eater is cake-eaters.
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