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fruit⋅cake

[froot-keyk]
–noun
1. a rich cake containing dried or candied fruit, nuts, etc.
2. Slang. a crazy or eccentric person; nut.

Origin:
1840–50; fruit + cake
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fruit·cake   (frōōt'kāk')   
n.  
  1. A heavy spiced cake containing nuts and candied or dried fruits.

  2. Slang A crazy or an eccentric person: "a fruitcake under the delusion that he was Saint Nicholas" (John Strahinich).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
fruitcake

  1. n.
    a silly-acting person. (Also a term of address.) : You can be such a silly fruitcake sometimes.
  2. n.
    a male homosexual. (Rude and derogatory. An elaboration of fruit.) : We went into this bar, but it was filled with fruitcakes, so we left.
  3. n.
    and fruit loop. a foolish oaf. (Someone who is as nutty as a fruitcake. Fruit loop is borrowed from the cereal of the same [protected trade] name.) : What a fruitcake! Doesn't even know where his head is at. , Out of the way, fruit loop.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

fruitcake

see nutty as a fruitcake.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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