fruitcaky
fruitcaky is the alternative form of fruitcakey.
Meaning of fruitcakey
Adjective
fruitcakey (comparative more fruitcakey, superlative most fruitcakey)
- 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
- 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 fruitcaky
| comparative | more fruitcaky |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fruitcaky |
Questions about fruitcaky
- What is fruitcaky the alternative form of?
- Fruitcaky is the alternative form of fruitcakey.
Words near fruitcaky in the dictionary
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