cakeist

English

Etymology

From cake +‎ -ist.

Noun

cakeist (plural cakeists)

1. One who specializes in cakes and similar baked goods.
   • 1919, The Mistral: A Year-book, page 75:

     Miss Justin , Champion Cakeist of the Y.M.C.A.

   • 1968, Theodore Pratt, That was Palm Beach, page 36:

     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.

   • 1984, India Today, page 160:

     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.

   • 2014, Romi Moondi, Year of the Chick - Volume 1:

     And if it does then screw nutrition; I wanna be a cakeist.

Adjective

cakeist (comparative more cakeist, superlative most cakeist)

1. (UK politics) Of or pertaining to having one's cake and eating it.

   Some said the proposed Brexit deal was cakeist.

   • 2017 September 22, Anne Perkins, “Theresa May's Florence speech – our writers' verdicts”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     May's cakeist approach to Brexit (as in, having it and eating it) is beginning to find its limits.

   • 2019 July 15, Gideon Rachman, “Boris Johnson, ‘cakeism’ and the Blitz spirit”, in the Financial Times‎^[2]:

     As a leadership candidate, Mr Johnson has run a strongly cakeist campaign.

   • 2020 January 10, Tom McTague, “The Hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan’s Decision”, in The Atlantic‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2020 December 30, “Post-Brexit trade: UK having its cake and eating it, says Boris Johnson”, in BBC News‎^[4]:

     I want you to see that this is a cakeist treaty.

   • 2021 December 22, Rafael Behr, “The Tories said we could have our cake and eat it – now they are stuffed and voters are hungry”, in The Guardian‎^[5]:

     In the cakeist view, Britain could retain the benefits of EU membership without any obligation to European law.

See also

• cakeism

Anagrams

• cakiest, stackie, tackies