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Fairycake vs Cupcake - What's the difference?

fairycake | cupcake |

As nouns the difference between fairycake and cupcake

is that fairycake is while cupcake is a small cake baked in a paper container shaped like a cup, often with icing on top.

fairycake

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • cupcake

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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:
  • Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker.
  • (slang) A weak or effeminate man.
  • (dated) (Used as a term of endearment)
  • * 2010 , Kimberly Cates, The Perfect Match
  • “Listen, cupcake ,” Cash tried to soothe. “Sometimes when grownups get mad, they say things they don't mean. I'm sure your mother—”

    Synonyms

    * (small cake) fairy cake