The word 'fruitcake' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a type of cake that is traditionally made with candied fruit and often nuts or spices. Example: "I made a delicious fruitcake for the office holiday party."
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BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake, is an unlikely fulcrum for the balance of power in the world of telecoms.
"Deep down," Mr Hiaasen wrote, "we knew you were still the same paranoid fruitcake you've always been.
Sure, and plenty of people are trying to abolish hunger, too.It would be easy to dismiss Mr Kahle as an idealistic fruitcake, but for one thing: he has an impressive record when it comes to setting lofty goals and then lining up the people and technology needed to get the job done.
I think it would be so much cosier".Meanwhile, James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, a socially conservative group, accused Mr Obama of distorting the Bible and peddling a "fruitcake interpretation" of the constitution.
"No other fruitcake is making bikes in London," claims Will Butler-Adams, the managing director of Brompton Bicycle, which has made all its folding cycles in a factory in Brentford, west London, for the past two decades.
Panforte's like a chewy version of fruitcake, crammed with candied peel, whole almonds and flavoured with honey and spices.
Richly warming and smoothly satisfying, with concentrated fruitcake and gently spicy flavours.
(Though Ostrom's "Calvados-infused fruitcake" description will certainly make me sniff again at Chanel's Coco).
It is full of JCBs carrying out pre-summer maintenance, and the ducks have eaten so much marzipan- covered fruitcake that they flap about showing symptoms of type 2 diabetes.
His best-selling book, Memoirs of a Fruitcake, detailed exploits such as getting on a night bus and trying to pay with a bunch of bananas, because he was so drunk.
