fruitcake
See also: fruit-cake and fruit cake
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom fruit + cake, first use appears c. 1687. Sense of a crazy person, c. 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, c. 1911-12).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)
- A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
- 1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadl, page 7:
- Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.
- 2006 April 4, Ros Taylor, quoting David Cameron, “Cameron refuses to apologise to Ukip”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- "Ukip is sort of a bunch of … fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly," Mr Cameron told LBC radio.
- (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.
Translations
editcake
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crazy person
homosexual
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See also
editFurther reading
edit- “fruitcake n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
Dutch
editEtymology
editCompound of fruit (“fruit”) + cake (“cake”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editfruitcake m (plural fruitcakes, diminutive fruitcakeje n)
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