Fruitcakey
adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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 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.[…]”"
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From fruitcake + -y.
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