fruitcake

See also: fruit-cake and fruit cake

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From fruit +‎ cake, 1854. Sense of crazy person 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, 1914).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹuːt.keɪk/
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Noun

fruitcake (countable and uncountable, 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

Greek:
Ancient Greek: παλάθη f (paláthē)
Irish: císte torthaí 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 or f, boiola (pt) m, puto (pt) m, viado (pt) m

Russian: го́мик (ru) m (gómik) (colloquial), пе́дик (ru) m (pédik) (offensive), пидора́с (ru) m (pidorás) (offensive), пи́дор (ru) m (pídor) (offensive)
Swedish: bög (sv) c

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