different between cupcake vs pastry

English

Etymology

cup +? cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?pke?k/

Noun

cupcake (plural cupcakes)

1. A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
2. (slang) An attractive young woman.
3. (slang) A weak or effeminate man.
4. (dated) Term of endearment.

Synonyms

• (small cake): fairy cake
• (effeminate man): cockney, pansy, sissy; see also Thesaurus:effeminate man
• (attractive young woman): babe, fox, stunner; see also Thesaurus:beautiful woman
• (term of endearment): cabbage, heartmate, sweetie; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart

See also

• (small cake, term of endearment): muffin

Descendants

• ? German: Cupcake
• ? Hebrew: ???????? (kápkeik)

Translations

Verb

cupcake (third-person singular simple present cupcakes, present participle cupcaking, simple past and past participle cupcaked)

1. (slang, intransitive) To flirt; to talk or act amorously or intimately.
   • 2018, Carlos Bayne, Napkin Nights: The Crunk Chronicles

     Let's review the tale of the tape: My best friend is being held hostage, I boosted his ride and mobile, then cupcaked with a heater-packing widow-maker.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English cupcake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p.ke?k/
• Hyphenation: cup?cake

Noun

cupcake m (plural cupcakes, diminutive cupcakeje n)

1. a cupcake

   Synonym: muffin

Derived terms

• cupcakemama

Related terms

• cake

Spanish

Noun

cupcake m (plural cupcakes)

1. cupcake

English

Etymology

paste +? -ry, or Old French pastaierie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pe?st?i/

Noun

pastry (countable and uncountable, plural pastries)

1. (countable) A baked food item made from flour and fat pastes such as pie crust; also tarts, bear claws, napoleons, puff pastries, etc.

2. (uncountable) The food group formed by the various kinds of pastries.

3. (uncountable) The type of light flour-based dough used in pastries.
4. (countable, obsolete) A place where pastry is made.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, IV. iv. 2:

     They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.

5. (uncountable) The act or art of making pastry.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• pastry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Sparty