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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A heavy spiced cake containing nuts and candied or dried fruits.
  2. n. Slang A crazy or an eccentric person: "a fruitcake under the delusion that he was Saint Nicholas” ( John Strahinich).

Wiktionary

  1. n. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
  2. n. colloquial, derogatory A crazy or eccentric person.
  3. n. US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated A male homosexual.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a whimsically eccentric person
  2. n. a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on

Etymologies

  1. From fruit +‎ cake, 1854. Sense of crazy person 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, 1914). (Wiktionary)

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  • frindley It's more complicated than that. At least in the frindley household, you have to take it down off the top of the pantry cupboard every three months or so and dowse it in brandy. Then wrap it back up in the heavy brown-paper wrapping and return it to the top of the cupboard. Then after about 12 to 18 months of that you have the most wonderful, wonderful creation, ready to be covered in a thin layer of marzipan, followed by two layers of delicately tinted fondant icing, and finally decorated with elegant swirling curlicues of royal icing in a slightly paler shade. Modelled fondant flowers are optional. Personally, I think my best cake of all was the one surmounted by a fondant muddleheaded wombat, made for my sister's birthday. Oct 8, 2008

  • bilby I can do that. Oct 8, 2008

  • dontcry "The longer you keep it, the better it gets." Ahhh. So that's the trick. You never actually eat it, THEN it's delicious! Oct 8, 2008

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‘fruitcake’ has been looked up 1633 times, added to 17 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 18.