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fruitcake

fruitcake

See also: fruit-cake and fruit cake

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Alternative forms

Noun

fruitcake ‎(plural fruitcakes)

A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
(chiefly US and Canada, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
- 1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadly, p 7:
  Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.
(US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A male homosexual.

Translations

cake

Chinese:

Cantonese: 乾果蛋糕, 干果蛋糕 ‎(gon¹ gwo² daan⁶ gou¹)

Mandarin: 乾果蛋糕, 干果蛋糕 ‎(gānguǒ dàngāo)
Esperanto: fruktokuko
Finnish: hedelmäkakku (fi)
French: cake (fr) m

German: Früchtebrot (de) n, Früchtekuchen m
Japanese: フルーツケーキ ‎(furūtsukēki)
Russian: кекс (ru) m ‎(keks), фрукто́вый пиро́г m ‎(fruktóvyj piróg)
Swedish: fruktkaka c
Turkish: meyveli kek

crazy person

Finnish: kaheli (fi), kahjo (fi)

Russian: псих (ru) m ‎(psix)
Swedish: toka (sv), tok (sv), galning (sv), knäppgök (sv)

homosexual

Finnish: hintti (fi)

Portuguese: bicha (pt) m, f, boiola (pt) m, puto (pt) m, viado (pt) m
Swedish: bög (sv) c