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fruitcake
/ ˈfruːtˌkeɪk /
noun
- a rich cake containing mixed dried fruit, lemon peel, nuts, etc
- slang.a person considered to be eccentric or insane
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fruitcake1
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Idioms and Phrases
see nutty as a fruitcake .Discover More
Example Sentences
Fruitcake is one of very few desserts that inspires a near universal derision.
Last year, I stored my tightly wrapped fruitcakes in my basement, tucked inside a securely sealed plastic storage container that I had used for moving.
As Claire Saffitz reminds you in her Dessert Person recipe, making a fruitcake is not a process that you decide to take on in the middle of December — it’s a process that you start right about now.
The New York Times’ Cooking’s recipe for fruitcake is called “Good Fruitcake,” which one could only take to mean that most fruitcakes are bad.
Fruitcake quickly acclimated to its American home, and even plays a supporting role in American literature.
Instead, think dried fruits, nuts, and spices—a holiday fruitcake you might actually want to eat.
And they eating crumbs of the cottage fruitcake, jawing the whole blooming time and sighing.
Harry, who had been stuffing fruitcake on the sofa—sweets were his weakness—rose suddenly and came over to the group.
Im going to make a natural fruitcake, this week, for our little girls birthday.
The fruitcake was duly packed, transported, and eaten—we are bound to say without ill effect.
I had a whole fruitcake taken bodaciously from me last year.
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