fruitcake

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Etymology

From fruit +‎ cake, first use appears c. 1687. Sense of a crazy person, c. 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, c. 1911-12).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɹuːt.keɪk/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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.

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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

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