as in eccentric
a person of odd or whimsical habits
children in the neighborhood once regarded the reclusive scientist as a fruitcake
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Recent Examples of fruitcake
Baked goods will include 16 varieties of holiday cookies, stollen, fruitcakes, caramel corn and take-and-bake pecan rolls.
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Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 28 Nov. 2025
The finish is long, sweet, and fruity with lingering fruitcake notes, dark chocolate, and a rich, oaky finish.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Even to a fruitcake skeptic, the cake recipes in Nature's Candy look delicious.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
Someone made a fruitcake with marzipan icing.
—Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 28 Nov. 2025
The finish is long, sweet, and fruity with lingering fruitcake notes, dark chocolate, and a rich, oaky finish.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
Even to a fruitcake skeptic, the cake recipes in Nature's Candy look delicious.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
Someone made a fruitcake with marzipan icing.
—Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fruitcake
Noun
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Catherine O’Hara portrayed ridiculous eccentrics with equal parts hilarity and humanity.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
10 Feb. 2026
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Greg Brown, the original guitarist and co-founding member of ’90s alt-rock eccentrics Cake, has died.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The renegade baseball general manager in Moneyball, for instance, was later played by Brad Pitt, while the characters in The Big Short were portrayed by Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, and Pitt again, among others.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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The space’s custom art was created by Amazonian artist Winny Tapajós, portraying a mischievous garden scene full of whimsical characters.—
Devorah Lev-Tov,
Robb Report,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Better for me the nuts-and-bolts march toward expertise.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
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DeWitt's go-to options include nuts, Greek yogurt and apple slices with nut butter.—
Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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In one corner, the heartless girlboss; in the other, the crackpot conspiracy theorist (who just happens to be more sympathetic and charismatic than such types usually are).—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2026
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The crackpots are the mainstream.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
Noun
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This wacko crew was one of the greatest things in the history of television.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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His search takes him to a wacko cult in the desert run by a scamster, and that of course puts the sheriff in deadly danger.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
6 July 2025
Noun
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Bits of bacon, mini hot-pockets, nutter butters and doritos.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
16 Jan. 2025
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Its founder was not a member of Congress but Paul Weyrich, a hard-right nutter with theocratic leanings with a fair claim to being the Johnny Appleseed of the New Right, having also co-founded the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority, and the American Legislative Exchange Council.—
Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
27 Mar. 2023
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That is enough to prompt scheduling a video chat with a purported demonologist (Laura Heisler) who does not seem a nutcase or charlatan.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
10 Aug. 2022
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Although My Donkey, My Lover & I (Antoinette dans les Cévennes) was made in 2020, before Libs of TikTok exposed school-teacher lunacy, writer-director Caroline Vignal proves prescient about the eccentricity that goes deeper than the profession’s nutcase radicalism.—
Armond White,
National Review,
27 July 2022
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There’s a romantic film positively gargantuan in scope that inspired hundreds of thousands of obsessives, but these two films could have aligned in being love stories about complete weirdos.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
12 Feb. 2026
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Were a bunch of weirdos that do weird pursuits.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Fruitcake.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruitcake. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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