cake boyn.
/ˈkeɪk bɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈkeɪk ˌbɔɪ/ 1. A boy who sells or serves cakes. Cf. cake man n., cake woman n. at cake n. and adj. Compounds 3. rare in later use.In quot. 1776 with reference to a boy who provides cakes to the army.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of bakery goods
pieman1301
waferer1362
wafroner1457
bun-seller1653
cake man1662
cake boy1776
muffin man1810
1776 L. Carter Diary 18 Jan. (1965) II. 969 Dunmore, in the exchange of Prisoners proposed, only offered a cake boy that was with Hatch for Lieut. Battall.
1832 J. Barrow Mem. Life Peter the Great ii. 34 It was said, indeed, that the Tzar owed his life to Menzikoff when a cake-boy.
1914 M. E. Crouse Out of Egypt ii. 26 Even the..lemonade-carriers and the cake-boys who had moved among the throng became transfixed with expectancy.
2010 T. Sabry Cultural Encounters in Arab World 84 From the cake boy to the cigarette boy to the water salesman,..everyone seemed to be making a living from the queue.
2. U.S. derogatory. A man or boy whose behaviour, demeanour, or appearance is considered to be effeminate or lacking in manliness; (also) a gay man. Cf. cake eater n. (b) at cake n. and adj. Compounds 3.
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > effeminate man
badlingeOE
milksopc1390
cockneyc1405
malkina1425
molla1425
weakling1526
tenderling1541
softling1543
niceling1549
woman-man1567
cocknel1570
effeminate1583
androgyne1587
meacock1590
mammaday1593
hermaphrodite1594
midwife1596
nimfadoro1600
night-sneaker1611
mock-mana1625
nan1670
she-man1675
petit maître1711
old woman1717
master-miss1754
Miss Molly1754
molly1785
squaw1805
mollycoddle1823
Miss Nancy1824
mollycot1826
molly mop1829
poof1833
Margery?c1855
ladyboy1857
girl1862
Mary Ann1868
sissy1879
milk1881
pretty-boy1881
nancy1888
poofter1889
Nancy Dawson1890
softie1895
puff1902
pussy1904
Lizzie1905
nance1910
quean1910
maricon1921
pie-face1922
bitch1923
Jessie1923
lily1923
tapette1923
pansy1926
nancy boy1927
nelly1931
femme1932
ponce1932
queerie1933
palone1934
queenie1935
girlie-man1940
swish1941
puss1942
wonk1945
mother1947
candy-ass1953
twink1953
cream puff1958
pronk1959
swishy1959
limp wrist1960
pansy-ass1963
weeny1963
poofteroo1966
mo1968
shim1973
twinkie1977
woofter1977
cake boy1992
hermaphrodite-
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male
badlingeOE
nan1670
molly1708
Miss Molly1754
Miss Nancy1824
molly mop1829
poof1833
Margery?c1855
Mary Ann1868
pretty-boy1881
cocksucker1885
poofter1889
queer1894
fruit1895
fairy1896
homosexualist1898
puff1902
pussy1904
nance1910
quean1910
girl1912
faggot1913
mouser1914
queen1919
fag1921
gay boy1921
maricon1921
pie-face1922
bitch1923
Jessie1923
tapette1923
pansy1926
nancy boy1927
nelly1931
femme1932
ponce1932
punk1933
queerie1933
gobbler1934
jocker1935
queenie1935
iron1936
freak1941
swish1941
flit1942
tonk1943
wonk1945
mother1947
fruitcake1952
Mary1953
twink1953
swishy1959
limp wrist1960
arse bandit1961
leather man1961
booty bandit1962
ginger beer1964
bummer1965
poofteroo1966
shirtlifter1966
battyman1967
dick-sucker1968
mo1968
a friend of Dorothy1972
shim1973
gaylord1976
twinkie1977
woofter1977
bender1986
knob jockey1989
batty boy1992
cake boy1992
1992 ‘Sir Mix-a-Lot’ Cake Boy (transcribed from song) in Baby got Back It ain't a man, it's a straight-up cake boy!
1994 A. Heckerling Clueless (film script, first shooting draft) (O.E.D. Archive) 95 Are you bitches blind? Christian is a cake-boy... A disco-dancing, latte-sipping, Streisand ticket-holding, Oscar Wilde-reading, friend of Dorothy.
2016 @_thegoddessali 17 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 18 Oct. 2019) He's probably a cakeboy!!!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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