Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A retail dealer in groceries; a grocer.
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- noun A
male grocer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also, the wives and families of the traitors were ostracized, while the corner groceryman who sold provisions to them was boycotted.
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Portuguese groceryman who never permitted my bill to go beyond four dollars.
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One might easily have set him down as a retired groceryman -- wholesale perhaps, but none the less a groceryman.
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Both had been observing the young groceryman and were so impressed with him that they offered him the post, which he accepted.
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Both had been observing the young groceryman and were so impressed with him that they offered him the post, which he accepted.
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Both had been observing the young groceryman and were so impressed with him that they offered him the post, which he accepted.
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This may be petit bourgeois idealism, but the groceryman, the bar owner making 300 pesos is not petit bourgeois at all, is he?
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He swizzled his glass and stared at me, managing to look like a New England groceryman about to tell off one of the summer people.
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Sitting in the smoking room of the hotel that evening I heard some men mention names that were familiar to me, and I discovered the talker to be a groceryman.
A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road"
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The first time he gave it to an old groceryman he knew to keep for him.
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