cheesecaken.
/ˈtʃiːzkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈtʃizˌkeɪk/ 1. Formerly: †a tart or pie containing a mixture originally including cheese, later usually curds or cream, eggs, sugar, butter, and various flavourings (obsolete). Subsequently: a dessert or sweet dish made from a mixture of cream cheese, sugar, and eggs on a base of cake or crushed biscuits, sometimes containing or topped with fruit, and either baked or chilled. Also as a mass noun.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cheese-cake
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Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 73 Chesekake, ortacius.
?a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 588/39 Ignacia, a chesekake.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie i. 71 If you come, to our sheep-shering veast..yous taste of our cheese cake.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 43 The dogg flies at the B[ishop] & tooke of his corner capp (he thought belike it had bene a cheese cake).
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Talmouse, a Cheese-cake; a Tart made of egges, and cheese.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 11 Aug. (1974) VIII. 381 We..eat some of the best cheese-cakes that ever I eat in my life.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvi. 142 This we call Saffron Cheesecakes; the other without Currans, Almond Cheesecakes.
1788 M. A. Kilner Mem. Pegtop (new ed.) 32 I will lay you sixpence to be spent in cheesecakes, which we will buy of the old pye woman.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 292 A sort of cheese-cake, made of cheese, eggs, and butter.
1890 Churchman 22 Feb. 218/1 In the tempting light lay the cheese cake with its adorning black currants.
1940 M. de la Roche Whiteoak Chron. II. xiii. 284 She ate cucumber sandwiches and cheese-cakes.
1977 Times 22 Mar. 17/6 Madam: there is no cheese in a cheesecake. Would you expect to find a fairy in a fairy cake, or a rock in a rock cake?
2010 R. Jantzen Eating for a Change x. 59 Changing our lifestyle does not mean we can never..indulge in a nice slice of cheesecake.
2. Originally U.S. slang. Revealing or sexually alluring photographs of the female body; (hence also) revealing display of the female body, esp. in photographs; female sexual attractiveness. Also as a count noun: a photograph of this kind (rare).
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [noun] > lewdness, bawdiness, or obscenity > display of female form
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1929 Photo-era Nov. 244/2 It was with the ship-news boys, too, that I learned to shoot ‘cheese-cakes’.
1934 Time 17 Sept. 30/2 Tabloid and Heartsmen go after ‘cheesecake’—leg-pictures of sporty females.
1955 E. Hyams Slaughterhouse Informer 109 Is cheese-cake still the best puller?
1968 Times 20 May 14/3 A photo session craftily combining fashion and cheesecake.
1970 G. Sorrentino Steelwork 114 Cheesecakes of Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth.
1991 Entertainm. Weekly 7 June 9/2 Its film division is busy serving up possibly more cheesecake per frame than any other major studio.
2003 New Yorker 16 June 51 Pictures that range from kinky beefcake and kinky cheesecake to kinky religious and kinky contemporary-arty.
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C1. attributive, esp. with the sense ‘resembling a cheesecake’ or ‘consisting of or characterized by cheesecake’.
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1645 Prognostication upon W. Laud (single sheet) Your cheskake cap and magpy gowne.
1670 J. Dryden Tyrannick Love Epil. 67 Nay, what's yet worse, to kill me in the prime Of Easter-Term, in Tart and Cheese-cake time!
1718 M. Prior Alma iii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 367 Effeminate He sat, and quiet: Strange Product of a Cheese-cake Diet.
1741 Countess of Pomfret in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) III. 321 Not sculking, like a modern hero, in a cheescake-house.
1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 321 Cheese-cake-grass, Lotus corniculatus; birdsfoot trefoil.
1835 Westm. Rev. Jan. 124 Why give the cheesecake-man the preference to me?
1996 Weekly World News 26 Mar. 39/3 You can lose 10, 20, 40, 50 pounds or more on the astonishing new chocolate cheese-cake diet!
C2. attributive in sense 2.
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1948 Illustrated 6 Mar. 4/1 American magazines sell millions of copies because of their ‘cheesecake’ pictures—‘cheesecake’ being their name for pictures of movie stars or showgirls with beautiful legs and scanty clothing.
1958 J. Wain Contenders 212 She had a sexy slouch like a Hollywood cheesecake queen.
1983 J. Reynolds Geniuses 26 To this former stewardess and cheesecake model, world history begins with her birth.
2013 R. Shukert Starstruck xiii. 149 So far there hadn't been much: just a tiny cheesecake photo of Amanda in a swimsuit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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