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A whimsically eccentric person
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fruitcake
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice. 2 (context chiefly US and Canada colloquial derogatory English) A crazy or eccentric person. 3 (context US slang colloquial derogatory dated English) A male homosexual.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fruit-cake , 1838 in the literal sense "a rich, sweet cake containing fruit," from fruit + cake (n.). Slang meaning "lunatic person" is first attested 1952.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES nutty as a fruitcake (= completely crazy ) ▪ She’s nutty as a fruitcake . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I figured he must have been a real fruitcake to write a letter like that. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He wasn't going ...
Usage examples of fruitcake.
The New Age Gurus, Crystal Channeling Fruitcakes, and Born Again Lemurians, versus the Stink Tank Futurologists, Sci-Fi Nerds, and Cyberwonks!
She pulled open the locker under her bunk, where the brightly wrapped fruitcakes had been stowed.
They also passed laws that will legally put handguns into the fists of more drunks, half-wits and fruitcakes than ever before.
Sunlight would cut down on the risk as well, since Red Court vampires got incinerated by it—and I doubted these Denarian fruitcakes would get along with it either.
Tonight the extra dose of nosegays made the big stink smell like the fruitcake cookies Aunt Lindsay makes for Bastille Day.
He was born in 1960 in Corsicana, Texas, a town that is the home of a justly famous fruitcake bakerya fact Allston chooses to contend is neither relevant nor symbolic.
She could be as nutty as a fruitcake as long as she did her job just as well tomorrow.
And the only reason he didn't was that if he did, his sister would have raised me, and she's as nutty as a fruitcake.
After pumpkin pie, mincemeat pie, and fruitcake, everybody pushed away from the table.
In the kitchen, my mother created endless confections, brownies and cookies covered with silver beads so shiny they looked like jewels, pecan pies, pumpkin pies, sculpted breads, even a fruitcake with succulent red cherries.
If I can raise the money to cover expenses I think I shall arrange to have a sin-eater at my funeral, in the manner of my Celtic ancestors, and also a feast for the mourners, with cold meats, Stilton cheese, fruitcake, and plenty of sherry and port.
Raspberry muffins, blueberry scones, redcurrant jelly, Abbofs cake, fruitcake, iced cake, shortbread biscuits, almond wafers, fresh cream, sweet cream, whipped cream, pouring cream, honeyed cream, custardy cream, Mrs.
From here, strange people like Jess and strange places like the slum they called dirtside and man-eating corporations called ETORP seemed like something you'd think up in the dark hours of the night after too much lobster and fruitcake.
He sees you Wahhabis for what you are…a bunch of backward religious fruitcakes who are embarrassed to admit you’re wrong.
Wild fruitcakes were ripe and a water chestnut provided potable water.