Cheesecake vs Cupcake - What's the difference?
cheesecake | cupcake |
(countable, and, uncountable) A pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base.
(uncountable) Imagery of one or more scantily clad, sexually attractive persons, especially young women; pin-ups.
A small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.
(slang) An attractive young woman.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 604:
(slang) A weak or effeminate man.
(dated) (Used as a term of endearment)
* 2010 , Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match
As nouns the difference between cheesecake and cupcake
is that cheesecake is a pie made of sweetened and flavoured cottage cheese or cream cheese, eggs and milk on a crunchy base while cupcake is a small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.cheesecake
English
(wikipedia cheesecake)Noun
(en noun)- Cheesecake is an especially delicious dessert.
- Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.
Derived terms
* no-bake cheesecakeSee also
* beefcake ----cupcake
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.
- “Listen, cupcake ,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”