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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