"fruit-cakey" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1932 May, Oliver Egleston, “The Cemetery”, in The Haverfordian, volume LI, number 7, Haverford, Pa., page 234:",
          "text": "And so this day, the sweet, fresh, fruit-cakey taste of Lorrilard’s Climax Plug was an enormous help to a person with Mlle. de Maupin too much on his mind.",
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        {
          "ref": "1942 July, Photoplay Combined with Movie Mirror, volume 21, number 2, page 88, column 3:",
          "text": "Of course, it wouldn’t be Hollywood if they didn’t order the beard shaved off after the honeymoon was over and even before the picture started. That’s what makes actors so fruit-cakey, if you know what we mean.",
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        {
          "ref": "1950 December 8, Elizabeth Hedgecock, “Kitchens Should Smell of Fruit Cake Now”, in The News and Observer, volume CLXXI, number 161, Raleigh, N.C., page 16, column 3:",
          "text": "In case you do not feel like going the whole way in making a fruit cake, you might try this wonderfully moist date and nut cake—very fruit-cakey in taste.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 January 29, H. I. Phillips, “Father And Son Dialogue”, in The Salem News:",
          "text": "“Would the atom bomb be used?” / “Man has become so crazy, my boy, that there is no telling how fruit-cakey he can get.[…]”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Frederic Mullally, Danse Macabre, London: Howard Baker, published 1970, →ISBN, page 115:",
          "text": "He had heard of Ed Orloff; Gordon had met him at the last Venice Film Festival. How had Jack described him? “Very good looking in a dark, fruit-cakey kind of way. A smart dresser and really on the ball as far as film publicity goes.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Terry Smith, Helvena, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 73:",
          "text": "Alena said, “Yeah, but I don’t know if I want to run into them. Remember, they were kind of fruit-cakey.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Laura Fitzgerald, Dreaming in English, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 347:",
          "text": "That stupid, nutty, fruit-cakey man.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Katherine Hill, A Short Move, New York, N.Y.: Ig Publishing, →ISBN, page 255:",
          "text": "Would he notice that the bath store across the way gave off a fruit-cakey aroma that often clashed with the subtle blend of furniture polish and grass that her managers strove to maintain in their space?",
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          "ref": "1932 May, Oliver Egleston, “The Cemetery”, in The Haverfordian, volume LI, number 7, Haverford, Pa., page 234:",
          "text": "And so this day, the sweet, fresh, fruit-cakey taste of Lorrilard’s Climax Plug was an enormous help to a person with Mlle. de Maupin too much on his mind.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1942 July, Photoplay Combined with Movie Mirror, volume 21, number 2, page 88, column 3:",
          "text": "Of course, it wouldn’t be Hollywood if they didn’t order the beard shaved off after the honeymoon was over and even before the picture started. That’s what makes actors so fruit-cakey, if you know what we mean.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950 December 8, Elizabeth Hedgecock, “Kitchens Should Smell of Fruit Cake Now”, in The News and Observer, volume CLXXI, number 161, Raleigh, N.C., page 16, column 3:",
          "text": "In case you do not feel like going the whole way in making a fruit cake, you might try this wonderfully moist date and nut cake—very fruit-cakey in taste.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1955 January 29, H. I. Phillips, “Father And Son Dialogue”, in The Salem News:",
          "text": "“Would the atom bomb be used?” / “Man has become so crazy, my boy, that there is no telling how fruit-cakey he can get.[…]”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959, Frederic Mullally, Danse Macabre, London: Howard Baker, published 1970, →ISBN, page 115:",
          "text": "He had heard of Ed Orloff; Gordon had met him at the last Venice Film Festival. How had Jack described him? “Very good looking in a dark, fruit-cakey kind of way. A smart dresser and really on the ball as far as film publicity goes.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Terry Smith, Helvena, iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 73:",
          "text": "Alena said, “Yeah, but I don’t know if I want to run into them. Remember, they were kind of fruit-cakey.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Laura Fitzgerald, Dreaming in English, New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 347:",
          "text": "That stupid, nutty, fruit-cakey man.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Katherine Hill, A Short Move, New York, N.Y.: Ig Publishing, →ISBN, page 255:",
          "text": "Would he notice that the bath store across the way gave off a fruit-cakey aroma that often clashed with the subtle blend of furniture polish and grass that her managers strove to maintain in their space?",
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        }
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