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cakeful

cakeful noun: as much as a cake has.

Noun

cakeful (plural cakefuls or cakesful)

  1. As much as a cake has.
    • Trans World Airlines had a cakeful of candles recenly^([sic]) to light up an anniversary.1965, Indian Aviation, page 237
    • Roscoe Cheers to the girls, Young Roscoe Beautiful girls, Both Who fill our stage. Roscoe Delicious, Young Roscoe Enticing, Roscoe The crème de la crème. Young Roscoe A cakeful of icing, Cannot compare to them.1971, James Goldman (book), Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics), “Bring On The Girls”, in Follies: The Complete Recording, TVT Records, published 1998

Examples of cakeful in a sentence

  • Love and sex, these were an icing on his whole cakeful of goodies.1976, Dorothy T. Samuel, “Liberating Marriages”, in Love, Liberation, and Marriage, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, →ISBN, page 127:
  • My birthday was coming up, and although I prefer to just let it slip by, I thought the little ones should have a cakeful of candles to blow out and a chance to sing Happy Birthday.1988, Dorothy Weiss Gottlieb, Inez Bellow Gottlieb, Marjorie A. Slavin, “There’s No Such Thing As an Ex-Grandparent”, in What to Do When...
  • First, get an idea of what it feels like to work the muscle by sitting up straight and exhaling fully, as if you were blowing out a cakeful of candles;1990, Health, page 61:
  • Imagine you're faced with a cakeful of candles and have to blow out only one of them.1992, the editors of Klutz, “Hand Whistling”, in Kids Shenanigans: Great Things to Do That Mom and Dad Will Just Barely Approve Of, Klutz...

Forms of cakeful

pluralcakefuls
pluralcakesful

Origin of cakeful

From cake + -ful.

Questions about cakeful

What does cakeful mean?
Cakeful means as much as a cake has.
How do you use cakeful in a sentence?
Love and sex, these were an icing on his whole cakeful of goodies.
What part of speech is cakeful?
Cakeful is a noun.
What is the plural of cakeful?
The plural of cakeful is cakefuls.

Words near cakeful in the dictionary

  1. cakecrumbs
  2. caked
  3. caked up
  4. caked-up
  5. cakefetti
  6. cakeful
  7. cakefuls
  8. cakehole
  9. cakeholes
  10. cakehouse
  11. cakehouses

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