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Fruitcake - What does it mean?

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fruitcake

Alternative forms

* fruit-cake * fruit cake

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
  • (chiefly, US, and, Canada, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
  • * 1952 , Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadly , p 7:
  • Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake .
  • (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A male homosexual.
  • Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.