tutti-frutti

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English

tutti frutti ice-cream

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Etymology

From Sicilian tutti frutti (“all fruits”), so attested in 1838 for a kind of sorbet.[1]

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Noun

tutti-frutti (countable and uncountable, plural tutti-fruttis)

  1. A variety of ice cream (or, formerly, other confection) that contains chopped candied fruit.
  2. (India) Candied raw papaya (unripened papaya).
  3. (slang, derogatory) A male homosexual.
  4. (drugs) A type of flavored cocaine.
  5. (New Zealand, drugs) A type of inhalable, powdered drug.

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References

  1. ^ V. Mortillaro: Nuovo dizionario siciliano-italiano, vol. I, Palermo, 1838, p. 450.

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