beefcake

beefcake

English

WOTD – 10 October 2011

Two beefcakes.

Alternative forms

• beef-cake

Etymology

From beef +‎ cake, by analogy with cheesecake (“an image of a sexy young woman”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːfˌkeɪk/

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• Rhymes: -iːfkeɪk

Noun

beefcake (countable and uncountable, plural beefcakes)

1. (informal, uncountable) Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.

   Coordinate term: cheesecake

2. (informal, countable) Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.

   Synonyms: lady-killer, hunk, adonis

   • 2014, Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     The audience goes bugshit. The security beefcakes separate them and the host gets between them, talking in a voice that is soothing on top, inciteful beneath.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beef,‎ cake.
   • 1998, Jessie Tirsch, McGuire's Irish Pub Cookbook, Pelican, page 145:

     Beefcake with Burgundy Mushroom Cream

Related terms

• beefy

Translations

imagery of muscular men

German: Muskelprotz (de) m (pejorative) (muscle-man) Hebrew: לירד‎ (he) m (Leerd) Russian: бифкейк m (bifkejk) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Turkish: kas yumağı (muscle-skein)

hunk — see hunk

a very muscular person

Swedish: biff (sv) c

Further reading

• beefcake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia