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fruitcake

 noun
     
fruit‧cake
1 [uncountable and countable] a cake that has dried fruit in it
2 [countable] informal someone who is mentally ill or behaves in a strange way:
He's an absolute fruitcake.
You really are nutty as a fruitcake (=crazy).
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