| 单词 | cake day |
| 释义 | > as lemmascake day cake day n. (also with capital initials) (a) (Scottish) Hogmanay, New Year's Eve (now chiefly historical); (b) a day on which cake is provided or sold, esp. for a special occasion or as a fundraising event.In sense (a) with reference to the cakes traditionally given to children on that day. ΚΠ 1805 W. Holland Diary 20 Jan. in Paupers & Pig Killers (1984) 105 Went to the Sunday School, few there and those small tho' it is cake day. 1845 T. Aird Old Bachelor 246 And then [in December] our Village children have ‘Barring-out Day’, ‘Guisarts’, ‘Cake-day’, and ‘Hansel Monday’. 1917 Glendale (Calif.) Evening News 1/4 Glendalians had a ‘Candy Day’ for the Glendale company of soldiers encamped on Dead Man's island. It was planned to have a ‘Pie Day’ and a ‘Cake Day’. 1963 G. Thomson Crocus Country xviii. 114 Everyone was supposed to have a great store of cakes, such as oatmeal cookies and shortbread on hand for such callers, and the day (Hogmanay) was often called ‘Cake Day’. 2014 @Aspall 28 Jan. in twitter.com (accessed 28 Nov. 2019) We are having a cake day today in aid of breast screening, selling fabulous cakes for a fantastic cause! < as lemmas |
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