cupcakes
SayKUP-kayks/ˈkʌpkeɪks/
- 1Plural of cupcake.
The bakery sells gluten-free cupcakes every Friday afternoon.
Children grabbed handfuls of cupcakes from the dessert table.
Note
One spelling does two jobs here. Besides counting the small iced cakes, cupcakes is also the present-tense verb, as in she cupcakes with everyone. The plural carries the noun's slang senses too. Cupcakes can be attractive young women or, as a put-down, weak or effeminate men. Context, not form, tells the bakery from the slang.
cupcakes is a form of cupcake
cupcake, noun: An individual cake baked in a cup-shaped container, typically made of paper, with frosting often added on top. Full entry
- Forms
- cupcakecupcakes plural
- Spelling
- cupcake → cupcakes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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