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fruit-cakey

fruit-cakey is the alternative form of fruitcakey.

Meaning of fruitcakey

Adjective

fruitcakey (comparative more fruitcakey, superlative most fruitcakey)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of fruitcake.
    • Sweet oak is mixed in with a sympathetic hand, and the palate follows with plenty of ripe fruitcakey flavour that’s smooth and the ripe tannins are reasonably easy on the gums.2002, Huon Hooke, Ralph Kyte-Powell, The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2002/2003, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 212
  2. (colloquial, derogatory) Crazy or eccentric.
    • The reason there was never a Jerry Lee Lewis–type scandal, the columnist suggested, was that Jerry Lee and Elvis were “very different people. Jerry Lee Lewis always had a public persona of being a very wild, crazy, nutty, fruitcakey kind of guy.[…]”1997, Suzanne Finstad, Child Bride: The Untold Story of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, New York, N.Y.: Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 166

Forms of fruit-cakey

comparativemore fruit-cakey
superlativemost fruit-cakey

Questions about fruit-cakey

What is fruit-cakey the alternative form of?
Fruit-cakey is the alternative form of fruitcakey.

Words near fruit-cakey in the dictionary

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

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