cakehole

noun

cake·​hole ˈkāk-ˌhōl 

plural cakeholes

British, informal

: a person's mouth

Your cakehole [=(US) pie hole] pumps out two and a half pints of saliva a day to moisten food and coat it with substances that help your absorption of nutrients.

—Runner's World, April 2012

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1943, in the meaning defined above

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