Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rich sweet cake containing fruit, as raisins, citron, currants, etc.
- noun In biology, an æthalium.
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- noun Alternative form of
fruitcake .
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Examples
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We had happy family gatherings, went blackberry-picking on a suddenly glorious afternoon, tea in a cottage garden, talk of riding-lessons and recipes for fruit-cake and golly-haven't-you-grown with a newly tall young relative...
The beauty of England... Joanna Bogle 2009
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Spoon half of the fruit-cake mixture into the cake tin, smoothing it down with a rubber spatula, and then lay the marzipan circle on top of it.
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We had happy family gatherings, went blackberry-picking on a suddenly glorious afternoon, tea in a cottage garden, talk of riding-lessons and recipes for fruit-cake and golly-haven't-you-grown with a newly tall young relative...
Archive 2009-08-01 Joanna Bogle 2009
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Spoon half of the fruit-cake mixture into the cake tin, smoothing it down with a rubber spatula, and then lay the marzipan circle on top of it.
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And yes, Sarah Palin * is* "out there in fruit-cake land" for believing in God, Jesus, and all that religious nonsense.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Well, I guess that this is it then. .right Minnie? or what about you, the always hate filled little couch dreaming joke who runs around spitting his ignorance around the web, (Talking to you mighty “transvestite” Aphrodite, you little fruit-cake you … LMAO!)
Think Progress » Leading Climate Skeptic Compares Gore to Hitler 2006
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Now that is a fruit-cake interpretation of the Constitution.
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The Bushites and their friends in the corporate media have spent much time trying to convince us that Ahmadinejad is a dangerous fruit-cake, as if Bush and Cheney aren't.
Crime of the Century: Are Bush & Cheney Planning Early Attack on Iran? 2006
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The taste reminded me of fruit-cake, but without the spice.
A night out. magnio 2006
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“The only thing we ever got from him for Christmas was a fruit-cake.”
The Christmas Thief Mary Higgins Clark 2004
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