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DictionarySeenuttynutty as a fruitcake
(as) nutty as a fruitcakeCrazy or wacky. Usually used humorously. The kids are always nutty as fruitcakes when they've had something sugary to eat. My Aunt Jeannie has always been nutty as a fruitcake.See also: fruitcake, nutty*nutty as a fruitcake and nuttier than a fruitcakecrazy. (*Also: as ~.) Don't pay any attention to John; he's nutty as a fruitcake. Mary's schemes for making money are nuttier than a fruitcake.See also: fruitcake, nuttynutty as a fruitcakeCrazy, idiotic, as in Mary's nutty as a fruitcake if she thinks she can get away with that. The adjective nutty meaning "insane" was first recorded in 1821; the similarity to fruitcake, which literally contains nuts as well as fruit, was first recorded in 1935. See also: fruitcake, nuttynutty as a fruitcake BRITISH, INFORMALIf someone is as nutty as a fruitcake, they are crazy. The man is a charmer — intense, funny, and nutty as a fruitcake. Note: `Nutty' or `nuts' is an informal word for mad. Nutty can also mean containing a lot of nuts in the way that a fruitcake often does. See also: fruitcake, nuttynutty as a fruitcake completely crazy. informal Nutty meaning ‘mad or crazy’ dates from the late 19th century, and this phrase, punning on the sense of ‘full of nuts’, from the 1930s. Fruitcake is also used on its own to mean ‘a crazy or eccentric person’.See also: fruitcake, nutty(as) nutty as a ˈfruitcake (informal, humorous) (of a person) completely crazy: He’s as nutty as a fruitcake. Do you know what he did yesterday? He had lunch outside in the pouring rain.See also: fruitcake, nuttynutty as a fruitcake verbSee as nutty as a fruitcakeSee also: fruitcake, nutty |