different between fruitmonger vs fruiterer

English

Etymology

fruit +? monger

Noun

fruitmonger (plural fruitmongers)

1. One who sells fruit.
   • 1995, Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling (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, The Penguin Press (1997), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Dixon has brought a small apple from a fruitmonger's barrow, […]

   • 2012, Karen Cushman, Will Sparrow's Road, Clarion Books (2012), ?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

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English fruiter??r (“fruit grower; fruit dealer”), from fruit??r (“fruit dealer; household official having charge of fruit”) +? -er (it is unclear why the second suffix was added). Fruit??r is derived from Anglo-Norman fruitier or French fruitier (“fruit-seller”), from fruit (“fruit”) (from Latin fr??ctus (“produce, product, fruit; enjoyment, satisfaction”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ruHg- (“to have enjoyment of; make use of”)) + -ier (“suffix forming names of jobs”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f?u?t???/, /?f?u?t??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?ut???/, /-??-/
• Hyphenation: fruit?er?er

Noun

fruiterer (plural fruiterers)

1. (Britain) One who sells fruit.

   Synonyms: fruitmonger, fruitseller

Coordinate terms

• coster
• costermonger
• greengrocer

Derived terms

• fruiteress

Related terms

• fruit

Translations

References

Further reading

• greengrocer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia