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Fruitcake

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice; usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on wordnet
  3. 3
    A crazy or eccentric person. colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable

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

  4. 4
    a whimsically eccentric person wordnet
  5. 5
    A homosexual male. US, colloquial, countable, dated, derogatory, slang, uncountable

Etymology

Compound of fruit + cake. First attested in c. 1687. Sense 2, predated by nutty as a fruitcake, was first attested in c. 1952.

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