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See also: fruit-cake and fruit cake
English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From fruit + cake, 1854. Sense of crazy person, 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, 1914).
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Noun[edit]
fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)
- A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
- 1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadl, page 7:
- Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.
- 2006 April 4, Ros Taylor, quoting David Cameron, “Cameron refuses to apologise to Ukip”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- "Ukip is sort of a bunch of … fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly," Mr Cameron told LBC radio.
- (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.
Translations[edit]
cake
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crazy person
homosexual
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See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Jonathon Green (2024) “fruitcake n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compound of fruit (“fruit”) + cake (“cake”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fruitcake m (plural fruitcakes, diminutive fruitcakeje n)
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