cake-eater

cake-eater
a) a lounge lizard This usage of the term dates from the 1920s, when it vied in popularity with sheik to indicate a slick young Romeo who wows the flappers and likes the high life. A Cake-Eater, when hes not trolling for jazz-babies at the local speakeasy, likes to loiter at a girls house and be pampered, especially by being served his sweeties baked goods and of course some degree of sexual metaphor might be inferred.

"Nowadays, these cake-eaters all died young. They had no teeth. They all went to doctors who fixed teeth. But still they died young and without their teeth."

b) someone of upper-class background, or who has been excessively well-off

"... We got us a cake eater, right here at the sink! He turned to me. Have you ever had your hands dirty, new kid?"


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