fruit-cakey

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1. alternativeAlternative form of fruitcakey.

   Alena said, “Yeah, but I don’t know if I want to run into them. Remember, they were kind of fruit-cakey.”

   2003, Terry Smith, Helvena, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 73

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   And so this day, the sweet, fresh, fruit-cakey taste of Lorrilard’s Climax Plug was an enormous help to a person with Mlle. de Maupin too much on his mind.

   1932 May, Oliver Egleston, “The Cemetery”, in The Haverfordian, volume LI, number 7, Haverford, Pa., page 234

   Of course, it wouldn’t be Hollywood if they didn’t order the beard shaved off after the honeymoon was over and even before the picture started. That’s what makes actors so fruit-cakey, if you know what we mean.

   1942 July, Photoplay Combined with Movie Mirror, volume 21, number 2, page 88, column 3

   In case you do not feel like going the whole way in making a fruit cake, you might try this wonderfully moist date and nut cake—very fruit-cakey in taste.

   1950 December 8, Elizabeth Hedgecock, “Kitchens Should Smell of Fruit Cake Now”, in The News and Observer, volume CLXXI, number 161, Raleigh, N.C., page 16, column 3

   “Would the atom bomb be used?” / “Man has become so crazy, my boy, that there is no telling how fruit-cakey he can get.[…]”

   1955 January 29, H. I. Phillips, “Father And Son Dialogue”, in The Salem News

   He had heard of Ed Orloff; Gordon had met him at the last Venice Film Festival. How had Jack described him? “Very good looking in a dark, fruit-cakey kind of way. A smart dresser and really on the ball as far as film publicity goes.”

   1959, Frederic Mullally, Danse Macabre, London: Howard Baker, published 1970, →ISBN, page 115