Meaning of Fruitcake | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice; usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.
   countable, uncountable
2. A crazy or eccentric person.
   colloquial, countable, derogatory, uncountable
3. A homosexual male.
   US, colloquial, countable, dated, derogatory, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.”

“One of the loafers kept calling down, "Hey you, Blondie, you like fruitcake kids like that?"”

“"Ukip is sort of a bunch of … fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly," Mr Cameron told LBC radio.”

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