fruitcake

See also fruit-cake, and fruit cake

English

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Alternative forms

• fruit-cake
• fruit cake

Etymology

From fruit +‎ cake, 1854. Sense of crazy person 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, 1914).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈfɹuːt.keɪk/, X-SAMPA: /"fr\u:t.keIk/

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Noun

fruitcake (plural fruitcakes)

1. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
2. (chiefly US and Canada, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
   • 1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadly, p 7:

     Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.

3. (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A male homosexual.

Translations

cake

• Finnish: hedelmäkakku (fi)
• French: cake (fr) m
• German: Früchtebrot (de) n, Früchtekuchen (de) m

• Russian: кекс (ru) (keks) m, фруктовый пирог (ru) (fruktóvyj piróg) m
• Turkish: meyveli kek (tr)

crazy person

• Finnish: kaheli (fi), kahjo (fi)

• Russian: псих (ru) (psix) m

homosexual

• Finnish: hintti (fi)

• Portuguese: bicha (pt) m and f, boiola (pt) m, puto (pt) m, viado (pt) m