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noun
noun
, orig US
An eccentric or mad person. (1952 —) .
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To be considered as a candidate you must first get onto the Panel, which is a sort of index designed mainly to exclude fruitcakes (
1982
).
[Cf.
nutty as a fruitcake
at
nutty
adjective
.]
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