fruitcake

Noun

Meaning

a whimsically eccentric person

a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

nut crank screwball crackpot nut case flake loon nutter character freak maniac loony kook brownie cake

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Antonyms

normal sage lucid sapient practical stable

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Hypernyms

flake cake eccentric geek oddball eccentric person

Hyponyms

simnel Christmas cake

Phrases with the word

as nutty as a fruitcake nutty as fruitcake christmas fruitcake

Examples

I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I wouldn't be harming anything. Ingrid Newkirk

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet. Jon Ronson

You little fruitcake, you little fruitcake, I said you are a fruitcake. Pete Stark

According to my mother, any self-respecting fruitcake needs to be baked and soaking by the end of October, at least. Source: Internet

Chef and fruitcake master Mynhardt Joubert currently bakes dozens of nostalgic Christmas cakes in his restaurant kitchen in Paarl. Source: Internet

He gives her a ride to her workplace, the United Fruitcake Outlet ("UFO". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

fruitbody fruitborer fruitbowl fruitcase fruitcrop fruitcrow