cakeageEnglishOxford Dictionary of Englishcakeage /ˈkeɪkɪdʒ / ▸ noun [mass noun] informal a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake that they have not supplied themselves: they told me I was welcome to bring a birthday cake and there would be no cakeage [as modifier] the standard cakeage rate in Melbourne was $3.50 a head. – ORIGIN 1980s (originally Australian): from cake + -age, on the pattern of corkage.