fruitcake

See also: fruit-cake and fruit cake

English

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^(key): /ˈfɹuːt.keɪk/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)

1. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
2. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia, 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 homosexual male.

Translations

cake

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乾果蛋糕, 干果蛋糕 (gon¹ gwo² daan⁶ gou¹)

  Mandarin: 乾果蛋糕, 干果蛋糕 (gānguǒ dàngāo)

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

• Greek:

  Ancient: παλάθη f (paláthē)

• Irish: císte torthaí m
• Japanese: フルーツケーキ (furūtsukēki)
• Russian: кекс (ru) m (keks), фрукто́вый пиро́г m (fruktóvyj piróg)
• Swedish: fruktkaka c
• Turkish: meyveli kek

crazy person

• Finnish: kaheli (fi), kahjo (fi)
• Russian: псих (ru) m (psix)

• Swedish: toka (sv), tok (sv), galning (sv), knäppgök (sv)

homosexual

• Finnish: hintti (fi)
• Portuguese: bicha (pt) m or f, boiola (pt) m, puto (pt) m, viado (pt) m

• Russian: го́мик (ru) m (gómik) (colloquial), пе́дик (ru) m (pédik) (offensive), пидора́с (ru) m (pidorás) (offensive), пи́дор (ru) m (pídor) (offensive)
• Swedish: bög (sv) c

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Dutch

Etymology

Compound of fruit (“fruit”) +‎ cake (“cake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrœy̯t.keːk/
• Hyphenation: fruit‧cake

Noun

fruitcake m (plural fruitcakes, diminutive fruitcakeje n)

1. A fruitcake, cake flavored with fruit.