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Fruitcakey

adj, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of fruitcake.

    "Sweet oak is mixed in with a sympathetic hand, and the palate follows with plenty of ripe fruitcakey flavour that’s smooth and the ripe tannins are reasonably easy on the gums."

  2. 2
    Crazy or eccentric. colloquial, derogatory

    "The reason there was never a Jerry Lee Lewis–type scandal, the columnist suggested, was that Jerry Lee and Elvis were “very different people. Jerry Lee Lewis always had a public persona of being a very wild, crazy, nutty, fruitcakey kind of guy.[…]”"

Etymology

From fruitcake + -y.

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