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cakeist en · ADJ

Etymology

From cake + -ist.

Meanings

1. (UK) Of or pertaining to having one's cake and eating it.
   • Harry and Meghan are easy to sympathize with. Who isn’t in favor of having cake and eating it, too? In politics, after all, everyone is a cakeist: No one wants to pay more tax, but everyone wants better services. 2020 January 10, Tom McTague, “The Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s Decision”, in The Atlantic:
   • As a leadership candidate, Mr Johnson has run a strongly cakeist campaign. 2019 July 15, Gideon Rachman, “Boris Johnson, ‘cakeism’ and the Blitz spirit”, in the Financial Times:
   • I want you to see that this is a cakeist treaty. 2020 December 30, “Post-Brexit trade: UK having its cake and eating it, says Boris Johnson”, in BBC News:
   • Some said the proposed Brexit deal was cakeist.
   • In the cakeist view, Britain could retain the benefits of EU membership without any obligation to European law. 2021 December 22, Rafael Behr, “The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry”, in The Guardian:
   • May's cakeist approach to Brexit (as in, having it and eating it) is beginning to find its limits. 2017 September 22, Anne Perkins, “Theresa May's Florence speech – our writers' verdicts”, in The Guardian:

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cakeist en · NOUN

Etymology

From cake + -ist.

Meanings

1. One who specializes in cakes and similar baked goods.
   • And if it does then screw nutrition; I wanna be a cakeist. 2014, Romi Moondi, Year of the Chick - Volume 1:
   • For, on view vying with other cakes and confections at a cake exhibition in Bangalore was this mammoth edifice of the pagoda standing 8.5 ft tall, fashioned by softspoken “cakeist” C. Ramachandran, the scion of a leading bakers' house, the Nilgiris. 1984, India Today, page 160:
   • Miss Justin , Champion Cakeist of the Y.M.C.A. 1919, The Mistral: A Year-book, page 75:
   • Then the cakeists really go to town. The judges decide on the winning couple which, as the band thunderously earns some more of its money, are presented with the cake and dance with it around the hall. 1968, Theodore Pratt, That was Palm Beach, page 36:

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