Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nutty as a fruitcake

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.30 in modern English

Syllables: nut-ty as a fruit-cake
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Behaving in an eccentric, foolish, or kooky manner; very nutty.

Colloquial

Example Sentences

"... and assuming that the defendant's Aunt Jane, in Wilkes-Barre, was as nutty as a fruitcake, and his grandfather, in Oskaloosa, had to wear cotton in his ears ..."
"2003, William Safire / NY Times News Service, "Fruitcake: A word that gets the US Congress to call the cops", Taipei Times, 10 Aug, p. 9, Eugene O'Neill, in his 1914 play, The Movie Man, coined a memorable simile: "We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here.""

Etymology

First use appears c. 1911 or 1912. See cite below.

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

nutty as a fruit cake (alternative)

Synonyms

nuttier than squirrel shit barmy crazy daffy dotty loopy mad wacky zany

Questions

What does nutty as a fruitcake mean?: Behaving in an eccentric, foolish, or kooky manner; very nutty.
Where does nutty as a fruitcake come from?: First use appears c. 1911 or 1912. See cite below.

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