fruitcaken.

Brit.

/ˈfruːtkeɪk/, U.S.

/ˈfrutˌkeɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fruit n., cake n.

Etymology: < fruit n. + cake n.For the semantic motivation of sense 2 see quot. 1885. In sense 3 punningly after nutty adj. 3b. With sense 4 compare earlier fruit n. 8b.

1. A cake containing (usually dried or preserved) fruit. Also as mass noun: cake of this kind. Also occasionally in extended use (see quot. 1848).

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes

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1687 J. Shirley Accomplished Ladies Rich Closet of Rarities vi. 38 (heading) Instructions for a gentlewoman in making of marmalade, paste of fruit,..fruit-cakes, honey, [etc.].

1780 S. Kellet et al. Compl. Coll. Cookery Receipts 93 You must make your paste up very soft, with warm milk, a little good yeast, some eggs, if you please, and beat them up with your hand, as you do a fruit cake.

1828 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 21 Jan. (advt.) C. Buckley, confectioner..can supply parties with pound cake, fruit cake, and all other cakes in his line, at 37½ cents per pound.

1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. xi. 162 This composition [of crushed service-berries and pulverized grasshoppers] being dried in the sun until it becomes hard, is what may be called the ‘fruit-cake’ of these poor children of the desert.

1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 11/3 From the kitchen there came a fragrant odor of fruit cake baking all one day and I knew that this would be cut and put in little boxes for the guests.

1981 Cook's Mag. Nov. 68/2 The fruit in fruitcakes is not always candied—it can be the dried variety, too.

2014 O. Frawley Flight iv. 113 She ate the offered slabs of speckled fruitcake, dense brack, yellow madeira, and cherry cake.

†2. Biology (colloquial). In certain plasmodial slime moulds: a flattened, rounded fruiting body formed by a cluster of sporangia. Obsolete.

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1885 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 841/2 The cysts may be united side by side in larger or smaller groups... These composite bodies are termed ‘fruit-cakes’ or ‘æthalia’, in view of the fact that the spore-cysts of Fuligo, also called Æthalium—the well-known ‘flowers of tan’—form a cake of this description.

1898 A. Sedgwick Student's Text-bk. Zool. I. i. 16 The spores are..contained within fruit-like cysts—the Sporangia—(Endosporeæ), which are either simple (spore fruits)..or combined into an æthalium (fruit-cake) of a cushion-like shape consisting of numerous convoluted sporangia.

3. colloquial (originally U.S.).

a. In similative expressions intended to suggest extreme eccentricity or insanity; esp. in nutty as a fruitcake and variants (originally punning on the alternative meaning of nutty).

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1911 Chicago Sunday Examiner 5 Mar. v. 5/2 ‘Isn't Ethel a sweet girl, as sweet as a piece of cake?’ ‘Why, I think that she is as nutty as fruit cake.’

1933 Chillicothe (Missouri) Constit.-Tribune 6 Sept. 6/7 (advt.) Starts Sunday ‘Three Cornered Moon’ Nuttier than a fruitcake!

1960 Palm Beach (Florida) Post-Times 3 July 4/2 It seems obvious on a study of the record that if your crimes are shocking enough, the State of Florida will find a way to execute you—even if you are as nutty as a loon or as crazy as a fruitcake.

2008 Times 28 Aug. (Times2 section) 10/2 Jem was..an intriguing and calming influence, because when I moved to London I was nutty as a fruitcake.

b. A mad, crazy, or eccentric person. to go fruitcake: to go crazy.

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1942 San Francisco Examiner 12 June 18/6 Two residents of Brooklyn dropped in after last Tuesday night's game to see Frank O'Doul. ‘Wasn't dat a super-dooper of a wrangle,’ said one. Said the other, ‘If you had lost day fray, Frank, I guess you would have gone fruit cake.’

1946 Amer. Speech 21 238/2 Fruitcake, an insane soldier; one who is bomb-happy.

1967 Flying May 8/3 It's nice to see that you've thoughtfully considered us kooks who go fruitcake over World War I aircraft by allowing the vaunted Fokker D.VII a reasonable amount of space.

1977 Rolling Stone 19 May 69/3 There is some fear that he has made ‘talking to the president a viable goal for every fruitcake in the country’.

2006 J. Walters Maggie's Tree 18 So a total fucking fruitcake roving round New York wanting to take a knife to the Holy Ghost when she sees Him didn't seem to present any particular problem down at the precinct then?

4. colloquial (derogatory). A homosexual man, esp. one considered to be effeminate. Cf. fruit n. 8b.

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1952 R. P. Smith Time & Place 65 Don't you call me sister, you fruitcake, you pineapple you. You don think he wantsa talk to a beat-up old queen like you.

1993 W. Styron Tidewater Morning 36 It wasn't a she..but a he. He was a White Russian fruitcake.

2005 Mad (N.Y.) July 41/2 The Queer Cartoon Threat To Your Children... The sinister plot..to turn your child into a flaming fruitcake.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fruitcake
释义	fruitcaken. Brit. /ˈfruːtkeɪk/, U.S. /ˈfrutˌkeɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: fruit n., cake n. Etymology: < fruit n. + cake n.For the semantic motivation of sense 2 see quot. 1885. In sense 3 punningly after nutty adj. 3b. With sense 4 compare earlier fruit n. 8b. 1. A cake containing (usually dried or preserved) fruit. Also as mass noun: cake of this kind. Also occasionally in extended use (see quot. 1848). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes honey appleeOE barley-cake1393 seed cakea1400 cake?a1425 pudding-cake?1553 manchet1562 biscuit cake1593 placent1598 poplin1600 jumbal1615 bread pudding1623 semel1643 wine-cakea1661 Shrewsbury cake1670 curd cake1675 fruitcake1687 clap-bread1691 simnel cake1699 orange-flower cake1718 banana cake1726 sweet-cake1726 torte1748 Naples cake1766 Bath cake1769 gofer1769 yeast-cake1795 nutcake1801 tipsy-cake1806 cruller1808 baba1813 lady's finger1818 coconut cake1824 mint cake1825 sices1825 cup-cake1828 batter-cake1830 buckwheat1830 Dundee seed cake1833 fat-cake1839 babka1846 wonder1848 popover1850 cream-cake1855 sly-cake1855 dripping-cake1857 lard-cake1858 puffet1860 quick cake1865 barnbrack1867 matrimony cake1871 brioche1873 Nelson cake1877 cocoa cake1883 sesame cake1883 marinade1888 mystery1889 oblietjie1890 stuffed monkey1892 Greek bread1893 Battenberg1903 Oswego cake1907 nusstorte1911 dump cake1912 Dobos Torte1915 lekach1918 buckle1935 Florentine1936 hash cake1967 space cake1984 1687 J. Shirley Accomplished Ladies Rich Closet of Rarities vi. 38 (heading) Instructions for a gentlewoman in making of marmalade, paste of fruit,..fruit-cakes, honey, [etc.]. 1780 S. Kellet et al. Compl. Coll. Cookery Receipts 93 You must make your paste up very soft, with warm milk, a little good yeast, some eggs, if you please, and beat them up with your hand, as you do a fruit cake. 1828 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 21 Jan. (advt.) C. Buckley, confectioner..can supply parties with pound cake, fruit cake, and all other cakes in his line, at 37½ cents per pound. 1848 E. Bryant What I saw in Calif. xi. 162 This composition [of crushed service-berries and pulverized grasshoppers] being dried in the sun until it becomes hard, is what may be called the ‘fruit-cake’ of these poor children of the desert. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 11/3 From the kitchen there came a fragrant odor of fruit cake baking all one day and I knew that this would be cut and put in little boxes for the guests. 1981 Cook's Mag. Nov. 68/2 The fruit in fruitcakes is not always candied—it can be the dried variety, too. 2014 O. Frawley Flight iv. 113 She ate the offered slabs of speckled fruitcake, dense brack, yellow madeira, and cherry cake. †2. Biology (colloquial). In certain plasmodial slime moulds: a flattened, rounded fruiting body formed by a cluster of sporangia. Obsolete. 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R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 841/2 The cysts may be united side by side in larger or smaller groups... These composite bodies are termed ‘fruit-cakes’ or ‘æthalia’, in view of the fact that the spore-cysts of Fuligo, also called Æthalium—the well-known ‘flowers of tan’—form a cake of this description. 1898 A. Sedgwick Student's Text-bk. Zool. I. i. 16 The spores are..contained within fruit-like cysts—the Sporangia—(Endosporeæ), which are either simple (spore fruits)..or combined into an æthalium (fruit-cake) of a cushion-like shape consisting of numerous convoluted sporangia. 3. colloquial (originally U.S.). a. In similative expressions intended to suggest extreme eccentricity or insanity; esp. in nutty as a fruitcake and variants (originally punning on the alternative meaning of nutty). 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Starts Sunday ‘Three Cornered Moon’ Nuttier than a fruitcake! 1960 Palm Beach (Florida) Post-Times 3 July 4/2 It seems obvious on a study of the record that if your crimes are shocking enough, the State of Florida will find a way to execute you—even if you are as nutty as a loon or as crazy as a fruitcake. 2008 Times 28 Aug. (Times2 section) 10/2 Jem was..an intriguing and calming influence, because when I moved to London I was nutty as a fruitcake. b. A mad, crazy, or eccentric person. to go fruitcake: to go crazy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > slight madness > crankiness or eccentricity > person fantastical1589 fantastic1598 earwig brain1599 extravagant1627 fanatic1644 energumen1660 original1675 toy-pate1702 gig1777 quiz1780 quoz?1780 rum touch1800 crotcheteer1815 pistol1828 eccentric1832 case1833 originalist1835 cure1856 crotchet-monger1874 curiosity1874 crank1881 crackpot1883 faddist1883 schwärmer1884 hard case1892 finger1899 mad hatter1905 nut1908 numéro1924 screwball1933 wack1938 fruitcake1942 odd bod1942 oddball1943 ghoster1953 raver1959 kook1960 flake1968 woo-woo1972 zonky1972 wacko1977 headbanger1981 1942 San Francisco Examiner 12 June 18/6 Two residents of Brooklyn dropped in after last Tuesday night's game to see Frank O'Doul. ‘Wasn't dat a super-dooper of a wrangle,’ said one. Said the other, ‘If you had lost day fray, Frank, I guess you would have gone fruit cake.’ 1946 Amer. Speech 21 238/2 Fruitcake, an insane soldier; one who is bomb-happy. 1967 Flying May 8/3 It's nice to see that you've thoughtfully considered us kooks who go fruitcake over World War I aircraft by allowing the vaunted Fokker D.VII a reasonable amount of space. 1977 Rolling Stone 19 May 69/3 There is some fear that he has made ‘talking to the president a viable goal for every fruitcake in the country’. 2006 J. Walters Maggie's Tree 18 So a total fucking fruitcake roving round New York wanting to take a knife to the Holy Ghost when she sees Him didn't seem to present any particular problem down at the precinct then? 4. colloquial (derogatory). A homosexual man, esp. one considered to be effeminate. Cf. fruit n. 8b. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male badlingeOE nan1670 molly1708 Miss Molly1754 Miss Nancy1824 molly mop1829 poof1833 Margery?c1855 Mary Ann1868 pretty-boy1881 cocksucker1885 poofter1889 queer1894 fruit1895 fairy1896 homosexualist1898 puff1902 pussy1904 nance1910 quean1910 girl1912 faggot1913 mouser1914 queen1919 fag1921 gay boy1921 maricon1921 pie-face1922 bitch1923 Jessie1923 tapette1923 pansy1926 nancy boy1927 nelly1931 femme1932 ponce1932 punk1933 queerie1933 gobbler1934 jocker1935 queenie1935 iron1936 freak1941 swish1941 flit1942 tonk1943 wonk1945 mother1947 fruitcake1952 Mary1953 twink1953 swishy1959 limp wrist1960 arse bandit1961 leather man1961 booty bandit1962 ginger beer1964 bummer1965 poofteroo1966 shirtlifter1966 battyman1967 dick-sucker1968 mo1968 a friend of Dorothy1972 shim1973 gaylord1976 twinkie1977 woofter1977 bender1986 knob jockey1989 batty boy1992 cake boy1992 1952 R. P. Smith Time & Place 65 Don't you call me sister, you fruitcake, you pineapple you. You don think he wantsa talk to a beat-up old queen like you. 1993 W. Styron Tidewater Morning 36 It wasn't a she..but a he. He was a White Russian fruitcake. 2005 Mad (N.Y.) July 41/2 The Queer Cartoon Threat To Your Children... The sinister plot..to turn your child into a flaming fruitcake. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1687
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