cheesecake
pronunciation
How to pronounce cheesecake in British English:
UK [ˈtʃi:zkeɪk]
How to pronounce cheesecake in American English:
US [ˈtʃizˌkek]
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- Noun:
- made with sweetened cream cheese and eggs and cream baked in a crumb crust
- a photograph of an attractive woman in minimal attire
Word Origin
- cheesecake (n.)
- also cheese-cake, mid-15c., from cheese (n.1) + cake (n.). In figurative uses for "soft, effeminate" from 18c. Slang meaning dates from 1934, when a "Time" magazine article defined it as "leg-pictures of sporty females." In its early years this sense of the word often was associated with Marlene Dietrich.
Example
- 1. Like cheesecake , music sates an appetite that nature cannot .
- 2. Crucially , cheesecake factory 's chicken parm process benefits from a constant feedback loop .
- 3. He once described music as auditory cheesecake and suggested that if it vanished from the species little else would change .
- 4. Sure you have to eat your whole grains and lean protein , but you can throw in some cheesecake every now and then !
- 5. 27 Chefsserve what they claim to be the world 's largest cheesecake in mexicocity , sunday , jan. 25 , 2009 .