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countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes
A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice. examples
(colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person. quotations examples
Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.
1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadl, page 7
One of the loafers kept calling down, "Hey you, Blondie, you like fruitcake kids like that?"
1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, New York: Signet, published 1963, page 205
"Ukip is sort of a bunch of … fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly," Mr Cameron told LBC radio.
2006 April 4, Ros Taylor, quoting David Cameron, “Cameron refuses to apologise to Ukip”, in The Guardian
(US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.