fruitcake

• fruit-cake, fruit cake

From fruit +‎ cake, 1854. Sense of crazy person, 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, 1914).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹuːt.keɪk/

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fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)

1. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
2. (colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
   • 1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadl, page 7:

     Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.

   • 1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, New York: Signet, published 1963, page 205:

     One of the loafers kept calling down, "Hey you, Blondie, you like fruitcake kids like that?"

   • 2006 April 4, Ros Taylor, quoting David Cameron, “Cameron refuses to apologise to Ukip”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     "Ukip is sort of a bunch of … fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly," Mr Cameron told LBC radio.

3. (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.

• Jonathon Green (2024) “fruitcake n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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

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

fruitcake m (plural fruitcakes, diminutive fruitcakeje n)

1. A fruitcake, cake flavored with fruit.

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