fruitcake
(fruːtkeɪk ) also fruit cake
Word forms: fruitcakes
1. variable noun
A fruitcake is a cake that contains raisins, currants, and other dried fruit.
2. countable noun
If you refer to someone as a fruitcake, you mean that they are mad or that their behaviour is very strange. [informal, disapproval]
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Idioms:
nutty as a fruitcake [British, informal]
very strange, foolish, or crazy
Despite his maddening fidgeting, the man is a charmer – intense, funny, and nutty as a fruitcake.
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