baby caken.

Brit.

/ˈbeɪbɪ keɪk/, U.S.

/ˈbeɪbi ˌkeɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: baby n., baby adj., cake n.

Etymology: < baby n. + cake n. In sense 2 perhaps also partly < baby adj. + cake n.

1. Either of two cakes traditionally eaten during the Christmas season: (a) a large cake into which a bean, coin, or other token is inserted which confers upon the recipient of the serving containing it the status of king or queen of the feast; = Twelfth-cake n.; (b) a small cake or biscuit formed into the shape of a person; = yule-dough n. at yule n. Compounds 1b. Now historical and rare.In quot. a1637 referring to a character representing a twelfth-cake in a Christmas masque.The precise sense in quot. 1825 is uncertain, but the context (an account of a 16th-cent. Christmas celebration) suggests that yule-doughs are more likely than simply small cakes (cf. sense 2).

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > other pastry articles > [noun]

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baby cakea1637

cannelons1733

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chin-chin1948

pull-apart1958

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feuilleté1970

money bag1993

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > Twelfth night or day

baby cakea1637

Twelfth-cake1774

a1637 B. Jonson Christmas his Masque 6 in Wks. (1640) III But who is this? O' my daughter Sis Mince-pie, with her doe not dally On paine o' your life... Last, Baby-cake, that an end doth make of Christmas merrie.

1825 ‘M. O'Tara’ Thomas Fitz-Gerald I. ii. 61 A group of children,..had been playing their little games for baby cakes and counters.

1854 Musical Times Jan. 314/1 The Christians of the middle ages converted into these kings [i.e., the kings of the feast] the ‘wise men of the East’, who are described as bringing presents to the infant Jesus; the cake and its ornaments (formerly called among us the Baby Cake) were the presents which they brought.

1878 Manch. City News 20 Apr. 22/1 At home we had St. Michael's bannock for Michaelmas, the carvis, or seed-cake for Allhallow Eve, and for Christmas the youle-dough or baby-cake,..and the shred or mince-pie; with spiced-bread and sugared cake for Twelfth Night.

1884 Harper's Young People 23 Dec. 114/2 What please the children most are the little Yule-doughs, or baby cakes—quaint little images made of paste and baked a fine light brown; and they have great sport over these old-time Christmas dolls.

1891 Cent. Dict. Yule dough,..a cake made especially for Christmas time. Also called baby-cake (because representing in shape a baby, probably the infant Christ) and Yule cake.

1978 ELH 45 218 Jonson's mummers..are each one of the customs necessary to make a ‘right Christmas’:..Wassail, Offering, and last of all, baby Cake, a special cake eaten at Epiphany.

2001 W. D. Crump Christmas Encycl. 101/2 (caption) Two spicy Yule Dollies... On the left is a Baby Cake, the image of the Christ Child in swaddling clothes.

2. A small cake, esp. one intended as a single serving.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > small cake > types of small cake

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Eccles cake1872

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marigold1896

sponge finger1906

muffin top1914

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lamington1929

whoopee pie1929

mandazi1937

French fancy1969

fondant fancy1974

1880 Gleason's Monthly Compan. Jan. 20/1 ‘That's a five-center sure,’ he thought. ‘I wonder if it's bigger'n five penny ones!’ and he glanced critically at the baby cakes nestling below.

1893 North-eastern Daily Gaz. 12 May A plate of tiny fancy cakes was passed at the table. Freddy, the elder boy, looked at the diminutive ‘baby cakes’ a moment and then took two.

1946 Sioux County Capital (Orange City, Iowa) 7 Feb. 8/1 Baby cakes, cookies, bon bons and salted nuts were furnished in abundance.

1959 N.Y. Times 16 Dec. 53/1 As pretty a package of Lebkuchen as you could wish to see. These spicy little cakes, some of them chocolate covered, cost $3 for twelve ounces (about fourteen baby cakes).

1997 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 11 June 1 e For Angel Food Baby Cakes With Whipped Cream and Diced Strawberries use miniature angel food pans.

2003 A. Roker Hassle-free Holiday Cookbk. 258 Not only do these cupcakes taste great..but you have less waste because they're individual baby cakes.

3. Chiefly in plural. Used as a term of endearment or affectionate form of address: sweetheart, honey, sugar pie. In quot. 1949 used as the name of a dog.

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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun]

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1949 Life 26 Sept. 139 (caption) Bakewell's Champions line up in front of kennels. From the front: Baby Cakes, Matchmaker, Fancy Free, Bon Diable and Shed of Arden.

1968 H. Lit Unbelievable Dict. Hip Words 2 Baby cakes, a name for someone you truly dig, but mostly your main chick or girl.

1973 Los Angeles Times 19 Dec. a1/1 [He] was..telling about wintering over [in Antarctica] with such characters as ‘Zoo’, ‘Col. Klink’, ‘Baby Cake’, ‘Super Wrench’ and ‘Hoppy’.

1982 M. Rodgers Summer Switch v. 42 ‘Oh, come off it, baby cakes, what're you giving me?’ she purred.

2008 M. Bliss Dying for Dinner viii. 98 See, it's really pretty easy when you just know what to look for. What else do you need, babycakes?

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	baby cake
释义	baby caken. Brit. /ˈbeɪbɪ keɪk/, U.S. /ˈbeɪbi ˌkeɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: baby n., baby adj., cake n. Etymology: < baby n. + cake n. In sense 2 perhaps also partly < baby adj. + cake n. 1. Either of two cakes traditionally eaten during the Christmas season: (a) a large cake into which a bean, coin, or other token is inserted which confers upon the recipient of the serving containing it the status of king or queen of the feast; = Twelfth-cake n.; (b) a small cake or biscuit formed into the shape of a person; = yule-dough n. at yule n. Compounds 1b. Now historical and rare.In quot. a1637 referring to a character representing a twelfth-cake in a Christmas masque.The precise sense in quot. 1825 is uncertain, but the context (an account of a 16th-cent. Christmas celebration) suggests that yule-doughs are more likely than simply small cakes (cf. sense 2). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > other pastry articles > [noun] crisp?c1390 mellinder1604 baby cakea1637 cannelons1733 yule-dough1777 vol-au-vent1828 sausage roll1852 cheese fingers1863 cheese straw1866 horn1908 pig in a blanket1926 brik1938 chin-chin1948 pull-apart1958 fortune cookie1962 feuilleté1970 money bag1993 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > Twelfth night or day baby cakea1637 Twelfth-cake1774 a1637 B. Jonson Christmas his Masque 6 in Wks. (1640) III But who is this? O' my daughter Sis Mince-pie, with her doe not dally On paine o' your life... Last, Baby-cake, that an end doth make of Christmas merrie. 1825 ‘M. O'Tara’ Thomas Fitz-Gerald I. ii. 61 A group of children,..had been playing their little games for baby cakes and counters. 1854 Musical Times Jan. 314/1 The Christians of the middle ages converted into these kings [i.e., the kings of the feast] the ‘wise men of the East’, who are described as bringing presents to the infant Jesus; the cake and its ornaments (formerly called among us the Baby Cake) were the presents which they brought. 1878 Manch. City News 20 Apr. 22/1 At home we had St. Michael's bannock for Michaelmas, the carvis, or seed-cake for Allhallow Eve, and for Christmas the youle-dough or baby-cake,..and the shred or mince-pie; with spiced-bread and sugared cake for Twelfth Night. 1884 Harper's Young People 23 Dec. 114/2 What please the children most are the little Yule-doughs, or baby cakes—quaint little images made of paste and baked a fine light brown; and they have great sport over these old-time Christmas dolls. 1891 Cent. Dict. Yule dough,..a cake made especially for Christmas time. Also called baby-cake (because representing in shape a baby, probably the infant Christ) and Yule cake. 1978 ELH 45 218 Jonson's mummers..are each one of the customs necessary to make a ‘right Christmas’:..Wassail, Offering, and last of all, baby Cake, a special cake eaten at Epiphany. 2001 W. D. Crump Christmas Encycl. 101/2 (caption) Two spicy Yule Dollies... On the left is a Baby Cake, the image of the Christ Child in swaddling clothes. 2. A small cake, esp. one intended as a single serving. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > small cake > types of small cake lozengec1430 rundle1587 macaroon1611 cookie1701 Savoy biscuit1719 queen cake1734 madling cake1747 dough1777 butter biscuit1789 rock cake1815 biscuit1818 madeleine1829 éclair1861 fairy cake1867 puftaloon1871 Eccles cake1872 petit four1875 rock bun1879 baby cake1880 rock1892 marigold1896 sponge finger1906 muffin top1914 palmier1920 lamington1929 whoopee pie1929 mandazi1937 French fancy1969 fondant fancy1974 1880 Gleason's Monthly Compan. Jan. 20/1 ‘That's a five-center sure,’ he thought. ‘I wonder if it's bigger'n five penny ones!’ and he glanced critically at the baby cakes nestling below. 1893 North-eastern Daily Gaz. 12 May A plate of tiny fancy cakes was passed at the table. Freddy, the elder boy, looked at the diminutive ‘baby cakes’ a moment and then took two. 1946 Sioux County Capital (Orange City, Iowa) 7 Feb. 8/1 Baby cakes, cookies, bon bons and salted nuts were furnished in abundance. 1959 N.Y. Times 16 Dec. 53/1 As pretty a package of Lebkuchen as you could wish to see. These spicy little cakes, some of them chocolate covered, cost $3 for twelve ounces (about fourteen baby cakes). 1997 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 11 June 1 e For Angel Food Baby Cakes With Whipped Cream and Diced Strawberries use miniature angel food pans. 2003 A. Roker Hassle-free Holiday Cookbk. 258 Not only do these cupcakes taste great..but you have less waste because they're individual baby cakes. 3. Chiefly in plural. Used as a term of endearment or affectionate form of address: sweetheart, honey, sugar pie. In quot. 1949 used as the name of a dog. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] darlingc888 belamy?c1225 culver?c1225 dearc1230 sweetheartc1290 heartc1300 sweetc1330 honeya1375 dovec1386 jewelc1400 birdc1405 cinnamonc1405 honeycombc1405 lovec1405 wantonc1450 mulling?a1475 daisyc1485 crowdy-mowdy?a1513 honeysop?a1513 powsowdie?a1513 suckler?a1513 foolc1525 buttinga1529 whitinga1529 beautiful1534 turtle-dove1535 soula1538 heartikin1540 bully?1548 turtle1548 lamba1556 nyletc1557 sweet-lovea1560 coz1563 ding-ding1564 pugs1566 golpol1568 sparling1570 lover1573 pug1580 bulkin1582 mopsy1582 chuck1589 bonny1594 chick1594 sweetikin1596 ladybird1597 angel1598 muss1598 pinkany1599 sweetkin1599 duck1600 joy1600 sparrowc1600 sucket1605 nutting1606 chuckaby1607 tickling1607 bagpudding1608 heartling1608 chucking1609 dainty1611 flittermouse1612 honeysuckle1613 fubs1614 bawcocka1616 pretty1616 old thinga1625 bun1627 duckling1630 bulchin1633 bulch?c1640 sweetling1648 friscoa1652 ding-dongs1662 buntinga1668 cocky1680 dearie1681 chucky1683 lovey1684 machree1689 nykin1693 pinkaninny1696 nug1699 hinny1724 puss1753 pet1767 dovey1769 sweetie1778 lovey-dovey1781 lovely1791 ducky1819 toy1822 acushla1825 alanna1825 treat1825 amigo1830 honey child1832 macushla1834 cabbage1840 honey-bunch1874 angel pie1878 m'dear1887 bach1889 honey baby1895 prawn1895 hon1896 so-and-so1897 cariad1899 pumpkin1900 honey-bun1902 pussums1912 snookums1919 treasure1920 wogger1922 amico1929 sugar1930 baby cake1949 angel cake1951 lamb-chop1962 petal1974 bae2006 1949 Life 26 Sept. 139 (caption) Bakewell's Champions line up in front of kennels. From the front: Baby Cakes, Matchmaker, Fancy Free, Bon Diable and Shed of Arden. 1968 H. Lit Unbelievable Dict. Hip Words 2 Baby cakes, a name for someone you truly dig, but mostly your main chick or girl. 1973 Los Angeles Times 19 Dec. a1/1 [He] was..telling about wintering over [in Antarctica] with such characters as ‘Zoo’, ‘Col. Klink’, ‘Baby Cake’, ‘Super Wrench’ and ‘Hoppy’. 1982 M. Rodgers Summer Switch v. 42 ‘Oh, come off it, baby cakes, what're you giving me?’ she purred. 2008 M. Bliss Dying for Dinner viii. 98 See, it's really pretty easy when you just know what to look for. What else do you need, babycakes? This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1637
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