christmas cake

1. 1.

   a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas

   Broaderfruitcake

   United Kingdom

Questions about christmas cake

What does christmas cake mean?

christmas cake means "a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas".

Is christmas cake a common word?

christmas cake is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.