Other forms: fruitcakes
A fruitcake is a rich cake full of dried fruit and nuts. A slice of fruitcake, Christmas fruitcake, feed the fruitcake.
The best are fed with spirits over weeks and keep for a year or more, which is why one is made in autumn for Christmas. The word is also slang for somebody eccentric, from the older phrase nutty as a fruitcake.
1nounfruitcakeA rich cake full of dried fruit and nuts.
“Grandma baked a fruitcake full of raisins and cherries for Christmas.”
fruitcake is a cake.
Fruit plus cake, with the slang sense from the older phrase nutty as a fruitcake.
fruit + cake. c. crazy person, predated by nutty as a fruitcake, was c.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA