Definitions

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  • noun One who sells fruit.

Etymologies

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fruit +‎ -monger

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Examples

  • Exchanging a copper with a fruitmonger for two oranges, the big Cimmerian squatted near a beggar in filthy rags, a man with one leg twisted grotesquely at the knee.

    Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986

  • A fruitmonger, taking his goods up to the windows, was just as inattentive as K. and nearly knocked him down with his cart.

    The Trial Franz Kafka 1903

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