Definition of fruitcake in English:

fruitcake

Translate fruitcake into Spanish

noun

1A cake containing dried fruit and nuts.
‘Both staff and residents alike enjoyed a sample of the tier of the wedding cake which was a rich fruit cake.’
- ‘When Donna graduated from college, she became a food stylist at a time when a sheaf of wheat, a spray of carnations and a patterned plate were required to accessorise a fruit cake for photography.’
- ‘By the way, a bite of the pretty white cake made me not want to eat any more sweet stuff on Christmas day, I ate my fruit cake on the next day.’
- ‘I pulled ours out yesterday to make a rich fruit cake and opened it with a small ‘pop’ - and then noticed a best before date of June 2001.’
- ‘Meanwhile food of the period was being cooked over open fires with a rabbit being broiled and a boiled bag pudding rather like a fruit cake being prepared.’
- ‘One of the older girls had made tea, and now she brought this in, together with the rich fruit cake on a plate.’
- ‘The place where we go to makes all their own cake on the premises and I rather like the fruit cake.’
- ‘We had small slices of fruit cake and cheesecake (that's my guess), and lemon cookies with lemon curd.’
- ‘Black cake is Guyanese fruit cake, usually made at Christmas or for weddings.’
- ‘Generally speaking, I prefer brown to white sugars in dense, rich fruit cake like this.’
- ‘The little fellow finally looked at the owner of the fruit cake and says: ‘You know, I think the customs officers going to take the cake away from you when you land you know.’’
- ‘Be glad that he isn't down here or you might be force-fed the fruit cake that Gram brought from her friend in Tampa.’
- ‘From the humble beginnings of learning to make a fruit cake in July 2001, students at the Bakery Project have since learned to concoct 13 delicious recipes.’
- ‘In the baking section there is the Powers Gold Label qualifier and National Dairy Council competition and the competition for the best fruit cake.’
- ‘During the war years, Auntie Flo always sent food in the Bundles for Britain from America and we had a tinned fruit cake, a much appreciated novelty.’
- ‘Ryan helped himself to a slice of a solid fruit cake.’
- ‘Furious with herself, she cut into the fruit cake, watching steam rise from its centre, and placed a comfortingly large slice on his plate.’
- ‘Icelandic fruit cake is served at Christmas, and eating it is perceived as a special holiday ritual.’
- ‘We rely on voluntary assistance and Mary has provided some great scones, fruit cake and plenty of cups of tea for us.’
- ‘These mini fruit cakes are rich and moist with either hand iced or a screen printed finish.’
1. 1.1 informal An eccentric or insane person.
  ‘Will you meet nutcases and fruitcakes in your travels?’
  ‘That he was loathsome, a complete fruitcake, and madman is well known.’
  ‘A while ago I suggested that it would be a good idea for Americans if they were to hive off a part of the country I call the ‘axis of stupidity’, and let all the fruitcakes who have been dragging the whole country down go live there.’
  ‘We will not try for ‘balance’ by hiring fruitcakes; we will try for balance by hiring non-ideologues who have carefully thought through the issues.’
  ‘Being a studio picture, this is only the beginning, and we are taken on a ridiculous and unbelievable journey through the kind of paranormal world that only unbalanced fruitcakes could possibly relate too.’
  ‘Just to be clear, we are looking into a way to bring back comments under a registration system that will ensure that we can manage the debate environment in order to keep out timewasters and fruitcakes and the rest.’
  ‘It does not mean that ALL smokers are fruitcakes.’
  ‘Before you accuse the chefs of being fruitcakes for starting so well ahead of Christmas, remember that this cake, like wine, gets better with time.’
  ‘And if there is one consolation to spending a fortnight stuck in the jungle with an assortment of fruitcakes, it is that the experience makes you feel quite sane.’
  ‘The title character's, perhaps, a little less nutty than the rest of the fruitcakes, but it's a close call.’
  ‘Good to see that even the fruitcakes are now identifying the real enemy of civilization.’
  ‘I thought he was a bit of a fruitcake or an odd fish.’
  ‘Did I mention that guy from Quebec is a fruitcake?’
  ‘The fruitcake must live in alternate reality.’
  ‘As I write this, the police are looking for some creep who murdered an innocent young woman, apparently at random and without any motivation except that he's a fruitcake.’
  ‘In kind, if I proclaim on a street corner that a certain Japanese beetle in my back garden is the new Messiah, you are also within your rights to ridicule me as a fruitcake.’
  ‘If he really was just a fruitcake (that's how they'll try to portray him) they wouldn't pay any attention to him.’
  ‘So they tracked him down, and he said, Oh, no, she's a fruitcake, she's made it all up, which drove my family and friends crazy.’
  ‘Anyone who thinks that these folks are part of some common ‘network’ is just a fruitcake.’
  ‘He was accused of lying, sleeping with young boys and being a fruitcake.’