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fruit-cake

fruit-cake is the alternative form of fruitcake.

Meaning of fruitcake

Noun

fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)

  1. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice; usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
    • Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadl, page 7
  3. (US, colloquial, dated, derogatory, slang) A homosexual male.
    Synonyms:
    fruit

Forms of fruit-cake

pluralfruit-cakes

Questions about fruit-cake

What is fruit-cake the alternative form of?
Fruit-cake is the alternative form of fruitcake.

Words near fruit-cake in the dictionary

  1. fruit wart
  2. fruit wine
  3. fruit wines
  4. fruit-bearing
  5. fruit-bearings
  6. fruit-cake
  7. fruit-cakes
  8. fruit-cakey
  9. fruit-dove
  10. fruit-doves
  11. fruit-eater

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fruit-cake (page history and authors); fruitcake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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