different between fruitseller vs fruiterer

English

Etymology

fruit +? seller

Noun

fruitseller (plural fruitsellers)

1. One who sells fruit.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates, Moffat, Yard and Company (1918), page 123:

     In the market?place stand the fruitsellers, who sell all kinds of fruit: ripe figs, with their bruised purple flesh, melons, smelling of musk and yellow as topazes, citrons and rose?apples and clusters of white grapes, round red?gold oranges, and oval lemons of green gold.

   • 2003, Ruskin Bond, Rusty: The Boy from the Hills, Puffin Book (2003), ?ISBN, page 46:

     The scooter swerved into a fruit stall and came to a standstill under a heap of bananas, while the scooterist found himself in the arms of an indignant fruitseller.

   • 2008, Peter Manseau, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, Free Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 100:

     He kept daring me to steal an apple from the fruitseller's wagon.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:fruitseller.

Synonyms

• fruiterer, fruitmonger, 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