fruiterer

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WOTD – 14 November 2018

Etymology[edit]

A fruiterer’s roadside stall in Senegal

From Late Middle English fruiterē̆r (“fruit grower; fruit dealer”),[1] from fruitē̆r (“fruit dealer; household official having charge of fruit”)[2] + -er (it is unclear why the second suffix was added).[3] Fruitē̆r is derived from Anglo-Norman fruitier or French fruitier (“fruit-seller”),[2] from fruit (“fruit”) (from Latin frū̆ctus (“produce, product, fruit; enjoyment, satisfaction”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to have enjoyment of; make use of”)) + -ier (“suffix forming names of jobs”).

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fruiterer (plural fruiterers)

  1. (British) One who sells fruit.
    Synonyms: fruitmonger, fruitseller
    • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
      [T]he very ſame day did I fight with one Samſon Stockefiſh a Fruiterer behinde Greyes Inne: Ieſu, Ieſu, the mad dayes that I haue ſpent!
    • 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, “‘I Lull a Fancy, Trouble-Tost’”, in A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 24:
      And Knight laughed, and drew her close and kissed her the second time, which operations he performed with the carefulness of a fruiterer touching a bunch of grapes so as not to disturb their bloom.
    • 1962, Ezekiel Mphahlele, “The Nationalist”, in The African Image, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A. Praeger, →OCLC, page 70:
      A good few Indian fruiterers who were right in the centre of Johannesburg never made the 'mistake' of serving a black man, or even another Indian, before a white customer, no matter who had come first.

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  1. ^ “fruiterē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 May 2018.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 “fruitē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2 May 2018.
  3. ^ “fruiterer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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