fruitcake vs screwball what difference

what is difference between fruitcake and screwball

English

Alternative forms

• fruit-cake
• fruit cake

Etymology

From fruit +‎ cake, 1854. Sense of crazy person, 1952 (predated by nutty as a fruitcake, 1914).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹuːt.keɪk/

Noun

fruitcake (countable and uncountable, plural fruitcakes)

1. A cake containing dried fruits and, optionally, nuts, citrus peel and spice.
2. (chiefly US, Canada, Australia, colloquial, derogatory) A crazy or eccentric person.
3. (US, slang, colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual male.

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Compound of fruit (“fruit”) +‎ cake (“cake”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfrœy̯t.keːk/
• Hyphenation: fruit‧cake

Noun

fruitcake m (plural fruitcakes, diminutive fruitcakeje n)

1. A fruitcake, cake flavored with fruit.

Hypernyms

• fruittaart

English

Etymology

screw +‎ ball

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɹuːbɔːl/

Noun

screwball (plural screwballs)

1. (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.

   The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher’s arms.

2. (US) One who behaves in a crazy manner.

   I will not listen to this screwball any longer.

Translations

Adjective

screwball (comparative more screwball, superlative most screwball)

1. (originally US) Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.
   • 2013, Tom Shone, Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last? (in The Guardian, 11 January 2013)[1]

     Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed “too entertaining” for Academy voters.

Derived terms

• screwball comedy

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