fruitcake

plural fruitcakes · alternative fruit-cake · alternative fruit cake

1. countableuncountableA cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice; usually served in celebration of weddings and Christmas.
2. colloquialcountablederogatoryuncountableA crazy or eccentric person.First known use 1950s

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

   1952, Mickey Spillane, Kiss me Deadl, page 7

   2 more examples

   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, →ISSN

3. UScolloquialcountabledatedderogatoryslanguncountableA homosexual male.

   Synonyms: fruit