Cupcake

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkÊŒpkeɪk/

Origin

cup + cake.

Full definition of cupcake

Noun

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