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nutty as a fruit cake

nutty as a fruit cake is the alternative spelling of nutty as a fruitcake.

Meaning of nutty as a fruitcake

Adjective

nutty as a fruitcake (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial, simile) Behaving in an eccentric, foolish, or kooky manner; very nutty.
    • ... and assuming that the defendant's Aunt Jane, in Wilkes-Barre, was as nutty as a fruitcake, and his grandfather, in Oskaloosa, had to wear cotton in his ears ...1912, G. Graham (publisher), The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 185, Part 1, page 10

Questions about nutty as a fruit cake

What is nutty as a fruit cake the alternative spelling of?
Nutty as a fruit cake is the alternative spelling of nutty as a fruitcake.

Words near nutty as a fruit cake in the dictionary

  1. nuttish
  2. Nutton
  3. Nuttons
  4. Nutts
  5. nutty
  6. nutty as a fruit cake
  7. nutty as a fruitcake
  8. nutty Irishman
  9. nutty Irishmen
  10. nutty slack
  11. nutukas

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