FRUITCAKE

fruitcake

(noun) a rich cake containing dried fruit and nuts and citrus peel and so on

crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball

(noun) a whimsically eccentric person

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)

A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.

(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.

(US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.

Source: Wiktionary



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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