Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A heavy spiced cake containing nuts and candied or dried fruits.
- n. Slang A crazy or an eccentric person: "a fruitcake under the delusion that he was Saint Nicholas” ( John Strahinich).
Wiktionary
- n. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
- n. colloquial, derogatory A crazy or eccentric person.
- n. US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated A male homosexual.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a whimsically eccentric person
- n. a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on
Etymologies
- From fruit + cake, 1854. Sense of crazy person 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, 1914). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In a fruitcake related side note, the competitive eating record for fruitcake is 4-lbs 14-oz eaten in 10 minutes.”
“Do you really need to ask why fruitcake is at the very bottom of the barrel?”
“A real fruitcake is always very moist, but a little rum makes them heavenly.”
“And he goes on to suggest the Democrat has a-- quote -- "fruitcake" -- "fruitcake interpretation" of the United States Constitution.”
“The nice thing about fruitcake is that it’s a fairly dry dessert so will pair with most sweet and semi-sweet wines very well.”
Christmas fruitcake: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog
“Love it, hate it, love to hate it -- you might call fruitcake the canned cranberry sauce of Christmas.”
The Huffington Post: The Daily Meal: Liquid Fruitcake: 12 Fruitcake-Flavored Cocktails
“So I made my fruitcake, which is pretty low in fat and made with some healthful ingredients.”
“Wow, that actually looks appetizing, although the idea of fruitcake just stirs up memories of stagnant, musky air of an old relative's home, and a gag reflex.”
“The Barney Frank Fruitcake: Offered by a Leesburg, Va. -based conservative group called the Public Advocate of the United States, the fruitcake is a booze-free confection topped with a color photo of the gay congressman.”
“I didn't want to be sending any fruitcakes in the mail (plus, calling a fruitcake a form of media is a stretch even for me), so instead I've picked a, uh, cookbook:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fruitcake’.
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•Public List: Delightful Ejaculations
All those awesome phrases you hear that you want to say every chance you get. Thanks to adoarns for the inspiration (on the vitamin h page).
just tits, jumping jesus on ..., sweet mother of p..., great day in the ..., ye gods and littl..., leaping lizards, holy cats, hot damn, good gosh miss agnes, mother dog, good night, hoover dam! and 102 more...
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Let them eat cake.
cake, cakes, Cake, bundt cake, pancake, cheesecake, yellowcake uranium, urinal cake, pound cake, birthday cake, wedding cake, sponge cake and 62 more...
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Mots Fous
Describing the demented--as colorfully as possible.
bats in the belfry, out to lunch, daft, stark ravin' mad, unsound, barmy, nuts but nuts, barking, touched, cracked, doolally, potty and 22 more...
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hedges's Words
wii, crepuscule, adumbrate, concatenation, sufi, qawwali, furry, riot, mellifluous, conspiracy, etymology, tea cozy and 369 more...
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Necessary?
"Words are very..."
The above was the original description for this list. Unfortunately, it doesn't convey much about the list contents.
I'm leaving you to draw your own conclusions abo...supererogation, fruitcake, unbeknownst, melifluous, bane, cavy, unnecessary, lyrical, question, undertow, weapon, arduous and 200 more...
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food
food, chef, spice, salt, sugar, pumpkin, apples, fruit, vegetable, savory, soup, sauce and 280 more...
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
Yule, Yule-log, holly, yew, bay, bay-leaf, bayberry, Holly King, Oak King, mistletoe, Christmas tree, star in the East and 150 more...
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Mad as a March hare
Words to describe the mad, the insane, the... well, me.
unhinged, unglued, mental, fruitcake, lunatic, nutter, potty, dippy, kooky, batty, daft, cuckoo and 20 more...
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Derogative words
This list include words to insult people in an argument. Does not include words that are profanity.
moron, imbecile, harlot, schlump, nincompoop, simpleton, ignoramous, idiot, dolt, blockhead, dunderhead, numbskull and 32 more...
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Nuts
If you are what you eat .....(when you reach the kernal).........
opiñon, pi-stachio, nucamentaceous, nutcase, beachnut, pterocarya, praylean, fruitcake, cocoanut, nougat, oenophilist, butterfly nut and 6 more...
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loonie
Inspired by Peter Reading's "Euphemisms".
crackers, potty, loony, bonkers, nutty, screwy, ga-ga, dull, strange, do-lally, dopey, silly and 83 more...
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Southern (from "Away Down South in Di...
Recipes from my 1947 (original copyright, 1939) "The United States Regional Cook Book" which is a cookbook divided into recipes from 11 "regions" of the US, plus an "auxiliary" section. I'm highlig...
pigs in blankets, kentucky burgoo, dolly madison bou..., cream of peanut b..., southern jugged soup, mobile oyster soup, pendennis turtle ..., calvert manor fro..., royal poinciana p..., oyster balls, planked shad, pine bark stew and 30 more...
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"Crazy" and its synonyms
crazy, mad, batty, bonkers, barmy, nuts, nutty, nutter, nutcase, insane, maniac, lunatic and 6 more...
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Edible
sashimi, tiramisu, quenepa, lychee, dulce de leche, flan, buffalo wings, sorbet, pasteles, sherbet, turducken, mochi and 79 more...
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Winter Food & Drink
What may be partaken during winter holidays.
gingerbread, pfeffernusse, pfefferkuchen, parkin, fruitcake, panforte, stollen, lebkuchen, laufabraud, black bun, hardbake, trifle and 39 more...
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Generally funny words
nutsack, clammy, slurp, enchilada, crevice, rectal, fruitcake, shmeng
Tweets
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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