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Definition: Fruitcake |
FruitcakeNoun1. A whimsically eccentric person. 2. A rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fruitcake" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Noun. Source: Mix Fruit Cake. Definition: All mixed up crazy. Context: Something crazy and didn't make sense. Social Source: North England Middle to Upper Middle class speaker. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonyms: FruitcakeSynonyms: crackpot (n), crank (n), nut (n), nut case (n), nutcase (n), screwball (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fruitcake |
| English words defined with "fruitcake": simnel. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Boy, what a fruitcake you are (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.) Jeffrey Goines was a fruitcake. (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) Listen to me you old fruitcake! (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) And while you're up there floating around, remember the day I said this: you are the nuttiest, the stupidest, the phoniest fruitcake I ever met (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) Fruitcake. All those fruit just stuffed into one cake (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
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Books | |
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| "Fruitcake" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Fruitcake" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.44% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fruitcake lady | 78 |
fruitcake | 57 |
ask fruitcake lady | 22 |
2 fruitcake lady | 14 |
fruitcake recipe | 9 |
fruitcake magic sims | 6 |
fruitcake jay lady leno | 6 |
fruitcake sims | 3 |
claxton fruitcake | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fruitcake"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Fruchtkuchen (placenta). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gyümölcskenyér. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | フリップフロップ回路 (flint glass, flip-flop circuit, flute, frill, fringe, fruit, fruit parlor, fruit punch, fruit salad, fruit sauce, full, full count, full course, full install). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フルーツケーキ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uitcakefray.(various references) | |
Turkish | tuhaf tip (case, curio, curiosity, odd fellow, odd fish, oddity, screwball, weirdo), meyveli pasta, çatlak kimse. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fruitcake": fruitcakes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fruitcake" (pronounced fruw"tkā'k) |
| 4 | -t k ā' k | hotcake, shortcake. |
| 3 | -k ā' k | backache, cheesecake, cupcake, pancake. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-k-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: facture, furcate, tackier. | |
-3 letters: acuter, cakier, curate, curiae, curite, farcie, faucet, fiacre, fracti, racket, retack, tacker, ticker, tucker, uratic, uretic. | |
-4 letters: acute, afire, afrit, after, areic, aurei, auric, caret, carte, cater, ceria, citer, craft, crake, crate, creak, cruet, curet, curia, curie, cuter, cutie, erica, eruct, facer, facet, faker, fakir, farce, farci, feria, feuar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-k-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fruitcakes. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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