fruitcake
See also: fruit-cake and fruit cake
English
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Etymology
From fruit + cake, 1854. Sense of crazy person 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, 1914).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Noun
fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)
- A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
- (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.
- 1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadly, p 7:
- (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.
Translations
cake
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crazy person
homosexual
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