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/

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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 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

• 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)

• Esperanto: fruktokuko
• Finnish: hedelmäkakku (fi)
• French: cake (fr) m

• German: Früchtebrot (de) n, Früchtekuchen m
• 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, f, boiola (pt) m, puto (pt) m, viado (pt) m

• Swedish: bög (sv) c