cake eater

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[keyk ee-ter]

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noun

Slang.��a rich person who is spoiled, self-indulgent, or greedy: Compassion won’t motivate the cake eaters in Congress, but money might.
That cake eater will need to get his hands dirty if he wants to work here.
Compassion won’t motivate the cake eaters in Congress, but money might.
Older Slang.��a ladies' man.
Older Slang.��an effeminate lover of ease and pleasure.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cake eater¹

First recorded in 1920–25

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Don’t fall for the slick, dandified cake eater — the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard.

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“I’m not a big cake eater,” says Stamp, “but this is the one cake that I’ll keep eating, going back for another sliver, until I have to get somebody to hide it from me so I won’t eat the whole thing by myself.”

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It grimaces like Peer Gynt and winks like a lounge lizard, a cake eater.

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caked breast cake flour

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