nutty as a fruitcake in English

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  "etymology_text": "1914.",
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          "text": "2003, William Safire / NY Times News Service, \"Fruitcake: A word that gets the US Congress to call the cops\", Taipei Times, 10 Aug, p. 9,\nEugene O'Neill, in his 1914 play, The Movie Man, coined a memorable simile: \"We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here.\""
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        "(simile, colloquial) Behaving in an eccentric, foolish, or kooky manner; very nutty."
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        },
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          "word": "crazy"
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        {
          "word": "daffy"
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        {
          "word": "dotty"
        },
        {
          "word": "loopy"
        },
        {
          "word": "mad"
        },
        {
          "word": "wacky"
        },
        {
          "word": "zany"
        },
        {
          "word": "nutty as a fruit cake"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nutty as a fruitcake"
}

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  "etymology_text": "1914.",
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      "expansion": "nutty as a fruitcake (not comparable)",
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  "pos": "adj",
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        "English colloquialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English similes",
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        "English uncomparable adjectives"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2003, William Safire / NY Times News Service, \"Fruitcake: A word that gets the US Congress to call the cops\", Taipei Times, 10 Aug, p. 9,\nEugene O'Neill, in his 1914 play, The Movie Man, coined a memorable simile: \"We sure are as nutty as a fruitcake or we wouldn't be here.\""
        }
      ],
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      ],
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    {
      "word": "barmy"
    },
    {
      "word": "crazy"
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    {
      "word": "daffy"
    },
    {
      "word": "dotty"
    },
    {
      "word": "loopy"
    },
    {
      "word": "mad"
    },
    {
      "word": "wacky"
    },
    {
      "word": "zany"
    },
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      "word": "nutty as a fruit cake"
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"nutty as a fruitcake" meaning in English

Adjective

Alternative forms