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FRUITCAKE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("fruitcake" is a kind of...):

cake (baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fruitcake"):

Christmas cake (a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas)

simnel (a fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A whimsically eccentric person

Synonyms:

crackpot; crank; fruitcake; nut; nut case; screwball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("fruitcake" is a kind of...):

eccentric; eccentric person; flake; geek; oddball (a person with an unusual or odd personality)

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