cakeist

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
7

Definition of cakeist

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. One who specializes in cakes and similar baked goods.
    “Miss Justin , Champion Cakeist of the Y.M.C.A.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “And if it does then screw nutrition; I wanna be a cakeist.”
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noun

  1. One who specializes in cakes and similar baked goods.
    “Miss Justin , Champion Cakeist of the Y.M.C.A.”
    “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.”
    “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.”
    “And if it does then screw nutrition; I wanna be a cakeist.”

adj

  1. (UK)Of or pertaining to having one's cake and eating it.
    “Some said the proposed Brexit deal was cakeist.”
    “May's cakeist approach to Brexit (as in, having it and eating it) is beginning to find its limits.”
    “As a leadership candidate, Mr Johnson has run a strongly cakeist campaign.”
    “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.”
    “I want you to see that this is a cakeist treaty.”

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Etymology

From cake + -ist.

Anagrams of cakeist

3 plays · some not in Scrabble

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