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fruitmonger

fruitmonger noun: one who sells fruit.

Noun

fruitmonger (plural fruitmongers)

  1. One who sells fruit.
    • So he wanders through the market, between the old-clothes stalls and the fortune-paper stalls, the fruitmongers and the fried-fish seller, with his little dæmon on his shoulder, […]1995, Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling, published 2001, →ISBN, pages 39–40
    • Dixon has brought a small apple from a fruitmonger's barrow, […]1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 699

Synonyms of fruitmonger

Forms of fruitmonger

pluralfruitmongers

Origin of fruitmonger

From fruit + monger.

Questions about fruitmonger

What does fruitmonger mean?
Fruitmonger means one who sells fruit.
What part of speech is fruitmonger?
Fruitmonger is a noun.
What is the plural of fruitmonger?
The plural of fruitmonger is fruitmongers.

Words near fruitmonger in the dictionary

  1. fruitlings
  2. fruitloop
  3. fruitloopery
  4. fruitloops
  5. fruitly
  6. fruitmonger
  7. fruitmongers
  8. fruitness
  9. Fruitridge Pocket
  10. fruits
  11. fruits of one's loins

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