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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.
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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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