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cakeful en · NOUN

Etymology

From cake + -ful.

Meanings

1. As much as a cake has.
   • ‘I can go all day hardly eating anything. Then, wham, I get this dreadful urge and in no time I’ve eaten cakesful of calories!’ 1992, Eve Brock, “Assist Yourself! Identify your Negative Wizards”, in Think Slim: The Seven-Step Programme to Slim-Fitness, London: Vermilion, →ISBN, part I (The Seven Steps to Slim-Fitness), page 80:
   • One day, I hope to add another zero to the same old one, as I blow out a cakeful of candles – a faceful of smiles on my wrinkled pate. 2010, Ron Jost, Holding Out the Hand of a Dead Relative, Great Horned Publishing, →ISBN, page 44:
   • Imagine you're faced with a cakeful of candles and have to blow out only one of them. 1992, the editors of Klutz, “Hand Whistling”, in Kids Shenanigans: Great Things to Do That Mom and Dad Will Just Barely Approve Of, Klutz, →ISBN, section “Two More Minutes and You Still Can't Get It”, page 34:
   • My birthday was coming up, and although I prefer to just let it slip by, I thought the little ones should have a cakeful of candles to blow out and a chance to sing Happy Birthday. 1988, Dorothy Weiss Gottlieb, Inez Bellow Gottlieb, Marjorie A. Slavin, “There’s No Such Thing As an Ex-Grandparent”, in What to Do When Your Son or Daughter Divorces, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 128:
   • She stabbed the cigarette into her mouth, lit up, and blew smoke from her lungs as if she were blowing out a cakeful of candles. 2001, Ray Garton, Sex and Violence in Hollywood, Gollancz, published 2016, →ISBN:
   • Roscoe Cheers to the girls, Young Roscoe Beautiful girls, Both Who fill our stage. Roscoe Delicious, Young Roscoe Enticing, Roscoe The crème de la crème. Young Roscoe A cakeful of icing, Cannot compare to them. 1971, James Goldman (book), Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics), “Bring On The Girls”, in Follies: The Complete Recording, TVT Records, published 1998:
   • First, get an idea of what it feels like to work the muscle by sitting up straight and exhaling fully, as if you were blowing out a cakeful of candles; 1990, Health, page 61:
   • Love and sex, these were an icing on his whole cakeful of goodies. Like many women, Rebecca realized that such a cakeful of goodies could not exist for him were she not there to do the innumerable drudge tasks of daily existence. 1976, Dorothy T. Samuel, “Liberating Marriages”, in Love, Liberation, and Marriage, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, →ISBN, page 127:
   • The latest is: we got a little more frosting in the north. Not a cakeful, but more than a nibble. 2003, Xcp: Cross-cultural Poetics, page 123:
   • Trans World Airlines had a cakeful of candles recenly^([sic]) to light up an anniversary. 1965, Indian Aviation, page 237:
   • The same kitchen table where he must have blown out so many cakefuls of birthday candles over the years. 2009, Julie Myerson, The Lost Child: A True Story, London; Berlin; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 296:

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