cake eater
Americannoun
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Slang. a rich person who is spoiled, self-indulgent, or greedy: Compassion won’t motivate the cake eaters in Congress, but money might.
That cake eater will need to get his hands dirty if he wants to work here.
Compassion won’t motivate the cake eaters in Congress, but money might.
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Older Slang. a ladies' man.
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Older Slang. an effeminate lover of ease and pleasure.
Etymology
Origin of cake eater
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Don’t fall for the slick, dandified cake eater — the unpolished gold of a real man is worth more than the gloss of a lounge lizard.
From Washington Post
“I’m not a big cake eater,” says Stamp, “but this is the one cake that I’ll keep eating, going back for another sliver, until I have to get somebody to hide it from me so I won’t eat the whole thing by myself.”
From Washington Post
It grimaces like Peer Gynt and winks like a lounge lizard, a cake eater.
From Project Gutenberg
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