| NOUN | person | fruitcake, crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball | a whimsically eccentric person |
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| food | fruitcake | a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on |
| Sounds | fruw'tkey.k | |
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| Rhymes | ache ... wake / Wake: 58 rhymes with eyk... | |
| Meaning | A whimsically eccentric person. | |
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| Synonyms | crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, screwball | |
| Broader | eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek | A person with an unusual or odd personality |
| Spanish | chalado, chalupa, chiflado, colifato, estrafalario, excéntrico, locatis, locato, loco, locuelo, piantado, pirado, tabardillo, tarambana | |
| Catalan | poca-solta | |
| Meaning | A rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on. | |
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| Narrower | Christmas cake | A rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas |
| simnel | A fruitcake (sometimes covered with almond paste) eaten at mid-Lent or Easter or Christmas | |
| Broader | cake | baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat |
| Spanish | pastel de fruta, pastel de frutas | |
| Catalan | pastís de fruites | |
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