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fruit·cake
(fro͞ot′kāk′)n.
1. A heavy spiced cake containing nuts, candied or dried fruits, and often rum or brandy.
2. Slang A crazy or an eccentric person: "a fruitcake under the delusion that he was Saint Nicholas" (John Strahinich).
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fruitcake
(ˈfruːtˌkeɪk)n
1. (Cookery) a rich cake containing mixed dried fruit, lemon peel, nuts, etc
2. slang chiefly Brit a person considered to be eccentric or insane
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fruit•cake
(ˈfrutˌkeɪk)n.
1. a rich cake containing candied fruit, nuts, spices, etc.
2. Slang. a crazy or eccentric person.
[1840–50]
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Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | fruitcake - a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on cake - baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat Christmas cake - a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas simnel - a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas |
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fruitcake
[ˈfruːtkeɪk] NCollins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
fruitcake
[ˈfruːtˌkeɪk] n → plumcake m inv (fam) (person) → picchiatello/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995