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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

Words formed from fruit cake

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 bouquets
  2. fruit bowl
  3. fruit bowls
  4. fruit brandies
  5. fruit brandy
  6. fruit cake
  7. fruit cakes
  8. fruit cocktail
  9. fruit cocktails
  10. fruit crush
  11. fruit crushes

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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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