cakeshop

See also: cake shop

English

Etymology

cake +‎ shop

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪk.ʃɒp/
• (US): enPR: kākʹshäp, IPA^(key): /ˈkeɪk.ʃɑp/
• Hyphenation: cake‧shop

Noun

cakeshop (plural cakeshops)

1. Alternative form of cake shop
   • 1914 June, James Joyce, “(please specify the story)”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:

     As he did not wish their last interview to be troubled by the influence of their ruined confessional they met in a little cakeshop near the Parkgate.

   • 1962, James Gindin, Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes‎^[1], University of California Press, page 75:

     The girl and the young man’s first wife, accepting the male’s infidelity without scenes or recriminations, finally agree to start a cakeshop in another basement and leave the young man to his newest mistress.

   • 2009, Dani Cavallaro, Anime and the Visual Novel: Narrative Structure, Design and Play at the Crossroads of Animation and Computer Games, McFarland & Company,, →ISBN, page 87:

     …disquieted by the discovery that on the very spot where she expected to find a small familiar cakeshop, a large bookstore now stands instead.

Anagrams

• shoepack