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• fruit-cake, fruit cake

語源

Compound of fruit +‎ cake. First attested in c. 1687. Sense 2, predated by nutty as a fruitcake, was first attested in c. 1952.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfɹuːt.keɪk/

名詞

fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)

1. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
2. (colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person. [from 1950s]
   • 1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadl, page 7:

     Easy, feller, easy. She's a fruitcake.

   • 1962, Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, New York: Signet, published 1963, page 205:

     One of the loafers kept calling down, "Hey you, Blondie, you like fruitcake kids like that?"

   • 2006 April 4, Ros Taylor, quoting David Cameron, “Cameron refuses to apologise to Ukip”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     "Ukip is sort of a bunch of … fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists mostly," Mr Cameron told LBC radio.

3. (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.

   Synonym: fruit

派生語

参考

Further reading

• “fruitcake n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
• “fruitcake”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.