Talk:baby cake

RFD discussion: December 2024–February 2025

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baby cake

Just a small cake? Excrement Voider (talk) 15:41, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

This account has also mysteriously disappeared. DonnanZ (talk) 16:03, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Although I found 74 edits in User contributions for Excrement Voider. DonnanZ (talk) 16:20, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Help

@Donnanz: What do you mean “disappeared”? This is a Wonderfool account without a user page. (Also, what is the “Help” for?) J3133 (talk) 07:19, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@J3133: I thought so. Someone else added "Help". DonnanZ (talk) 10:10, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@Donnanz: But you added it. J3133 (talk) 10:22, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@J3133: Oh, that was unintentional. Let's call it a gremlin. Now struck. DonnanZ (talk) 10:41, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

I've never heard of this used literally—or in the singular—but I've heard "baby cakes" used as a pet name or nickname—perhaps with a deliberately patronizing tone—many times. I'm not sure what it actually means, other than perhaps an elaboration of "baby" used as a pet name; at least that's how I've always understood it. If there are actual baby cakes at the root of this, I can't remember hearing of them. The entry should probably stay, but the definition may be wrong. Possibly the main entry should be plural. P Aculeius (talk) 16:16, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Delete the literal sense as SoP, unless there is evidence it is used as a term of endearment. — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:56, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

• I have created an additional definition, concerning king cakes, and have converted the RfD to an RfD-sense Purplebackpack89 22:27, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

  Thank you kindly for your contribution. FWIW, OED has an entry for baby cake, attested since c. 1637:

  https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=baby+cake&tl=true mysteryroom (talk) 22:34, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

• Delete the first sense per nom. LunaEatsTuna (talk) 22:35, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

• RFD failed + deleted Father of minus 2 (talk) 11:41, 13 February 2025 (UTC)