fruit-cakey

See also: fruitcakey

English

Adjective

fruit-cakey (comparative more fruit-cakey, superlative most fruit-cakey)

1. Alternative form of fruitcakey.
   • 1932 May, Oliver Egleston, “The Cemetery”, in The Haverfordian, volume LI, number 7, Haverford, Pa., page 234:

     And so this day, the sweet, fresh, fruit-cakey taste of Lorrilard’s Climax Plug was an enormous help to a person with Mlle. de Maupin too much on his mind.

   • 1942 July, Photoplay Combined with Movie Mirror, volume 21, number 2, page 88, column 3:

     Of course, it wouldn’t be Hollywood if they didn’t order the beard shaved off after the honeymoon was over and even before the picture started. That’s what makes actors so fruit-cakey, if you know what we mean.

   • 1950 December 8, Elizabeth Hedgecock, “Kitchens Should Smell of Fruit Cake Now”, in The News and Observer, volume CLXXI, number 161, Raleigh, N.C., page 16, column 3:

     In case you do not feel like going the whole way in making a fruit cake, you might try this wonderfully moist date and nut cake—very fruit-cakey in taste.

   • 1955 January 29, H. I. Phillips, “Father And Son Dialogue”, in The Salem News‎^[1]:

     “Would the atom bomb be used?” / “Man has become so crazy, my boy, that there is no telling how fruit-cakey he can get. […]”

   • 1959, Frederic Mullally, Danse Macabre, London: Howard Baker, published 1970, →ISBN, page 115:

     He had heard of Ed Orloff; Gordon had met him at the last Venice Film Festival. How had Jack described him? “Very good looking in a dark, fruit-cakey kind of way. A smart dresser and really on the ball as far as film publicity goes.”

   • 2003, Terry Smith, Helvena, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 73:

     Alena said, “Yeah, but I don’t know if I want to run into them. Remember, they were kind of fruit-cakey.”

   • 2011, Laura Fitzgerald, Dreaming in English, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 347:

     That stupid, nutty, fruit-cakey man.

   • 2020, Katherine Hill, A Short Move, New York, N.Y.: Ig Publishing, →ISBN, page 255:

     Would he notice that the bath store across the way gave off a fruit-cakey aroma that often clashed with the subtle blend of furniture polish and grass that her managers strove to maintain in their space?