English

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. (slang) A weak or effeminate man.
4. (dated) Used as a term of endearment
   • 2010, Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match

     “Listen, cupcake,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”

Synonyms

• (small cake): fairy cake

Translations

Verb

cupcake ‎(third-person singular simple present cupcakes, present participle cupcaking, simple past and past participle cupcaked)

1. (slang, intransitive) To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.
   • Carlos Bayne, Napkin Nights: The Crunk Chronicles

     Let's review the tale of the tape: My best friend is being held hostage, I boosted his ride and mobile, then cupcaked with a heater-packing widow-maker.

   • 2011, Deontra Woods, Blood, Sweat and Tears (page 102)

     I watched Brian as he drove off down the street. I turned and went back inside the studio and found Len at my desk. “I saw you and Brian cupcaking out there.”

   • 2013, Michelle Robinson, Right Before My Eyes II (page 100)

     But I figured Najah was cupcaking with Johan, Chelsea was eating something that didn't match while Greg rubbed her feet, and Kalena wasn't in a space to talk or listen.

   • 2014, Zaneeya S., Overcoming My Past (page 170)

     She said, “You're always Cupcaking.” I replied, “I'm not cupcaking. I'm enjoying my conversation so hush.” David and I would stay on the phone all night and talk. It was normal for us.

   • 2015, Mahalia Levey, Promiscuous Wolf

     “Luck is cupcaking on Myanna.”
     His eyebrows shot up. “Cupcaking?”
     “Old man.” She giggled. “Crushing. Your boy has a big time crush on Myanna.”