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n. - A rich baked good containing dried ripened reproductive body of a seed plant and nuts and citrus peel and so on; A whimsically eccentric person.

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Usage examples (38)
  • A real fruitcake is always very moist, but a little rum makes them heavenly.
  • "Do you really need to ask why fruitcake is at the very bottom of the barrel?"
  • If you've had a good idea, you were probably called a fruitcake at the start
  • So I made my fruitcake, which is pretty low in fat and made with some healthful ingredients.
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