fruitmonger

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English

Etymology

From fruit +‎ monger.

Noun

fruitmonger (plural fruitmongers)

One who sells fruit.
- 1995, Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling, published 2001, →ISBN, pages 39–40:
  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, […]
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 699:
  Dixon has brought a small apple from a fruitmonger's barrow, […]
- 2012, Karen Cushman, Will Sparrow's Road, Clarion Books, →ISBN, pages 133–134:
  Will and the Duchess sat in the sunshine and shared an apple Will had nicked from a fruitmonger's stall.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fruitmonger.

Synonyms

fruiterer, fruitseller, coster, costermonger

Translations

fruiterer — see fruiterer

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