fruitseller
fruitseller noun: one who sells fruit.
Noun
fruitseller (plural fruitsellers)
- One who sells fruit.
- In the market‐place stand the fruitsellers, who sell all kinds of fruit: ripe figs, with their bruised purple flesh, melons, smelling of musk and yellow as topazes, citrons and rose‐apples and clusters of white grapes, round red‐gold oranges, and oval lemons of green gold.1891, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates, Moffat, Yard and Company, published 1918, page 123
- The scooter swerved into a fruit stall and came to a standstill under a heap of bananas, while the scooterist found himself in the arms of an indignant fruitseller.2003, Ruskin Bond, Rusty: The Boy from the Hills, Puffin Book, published 2003, →ISBN, page 46
- Synonyms:
- fruiterer, fruitmonger, coster, costermonger
Synonyms of fruitseller
Forms of fruitseller
| plural | fruitsellers |
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Origin of fruitseller
From fruit + seller.
Questions about fruitseller
- What does fruitseller mean?
- Fruitseller means one who sells fruit.
- What part of speech is fruitseller?
- Fruitseller is a noun.
- What is the plural of fruitseller?
- The plural of fruitseller is fruitsellers.
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