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English

Etymology

cake +? -man

Noun

cakeman (plural cakemen)

1. A man who sells cakes.
   • 2009, Vyvyen Brendon, Prep School Children: A Class Apart Over Two Centuries (page 35)

     But they often reported cases of other boys being caned or birched for offences such as buying from 'a cakeman who came without Mr Wickham's leave', making a noise in the dormitory or 'stealing three pears and a few medlars […]

Anagrams

• mancake

English

Etymology

From cave +? man, based on the supposition that early humans dwelt in caves.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cave?man

Noun

caveman (plural cavemen)

1. An early human or closely related species, popularly held to reside in caves.

   The political cartoon showed the politician as a caveman, clubbing the budget depicted as a mammoth.

   • The creators of this nutrition plan believe that cavemen and cavewomen were lean and healthy because of the all-natural foods they ate.

   • 2010, Terence A. Shimp, Advertising, Promotion, and Other Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications, Cengage Learning, 8th Edition, page 154,

     And who could forget those ads that featured sophisticated cavemen who were insulted—in a parody on political correctness—by “insensitive” offenders who implied that some action was “so easy, a caveman could do it.”
2. (informal, figuratively, derogatory) A brutish or savage person.

   The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room.
3. (informal, figuratively, derogatory) A man with old-fashioned or backward opinions, particularly with regard to women.

   Old Sven is a bit of a caveman; he figures giving women the right to vote was a bad idea.

   • 2008, David E. Clarke, Cinderella Meets the Caveman: Stop the Boredom in Your Marriage and Jump, page 159,

     You think your Caveman is always chasing you for sex. Well, he is.

Synonyms

• (early humans or related species): hominid, hominin, neanderthal, troglodyte
• (brutish or savage person): boor, knuckle dragger, lout, savage, thug, troglodyte
• (man with regressive opinions): chauvinist

Hypernyms

• cave dweller

Coordinate terms

• cavewoman

Derived terms

• cavemanlike

Translations

Anagrams

• man cave, mancave