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A fruiterer is a person who sells fruit, usually from a shop. It is a British word, and it has grown old: you still see it painted over a market stall or in a Victorian novel, but today most people would say greengrocer (fruit and vegetables) or simply fruit seller. A greengrocer’s shop often sells both; a fruiterer, by the name, is the fruit specialist. It is not a farmer, and in modern use it is not someone who only grows fruit — though older English sometimes mixed those jobs together. Formal, dated, British.
水果商。偏英式、有點舊;台灣就是「賣水果的」。
組成From older fruiter (a fruit-seller, from French fruitier) + an extra -er. It is not clear why English added the second -er.
同家族的字
- fruitwhat this person sells
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fruiterernoun/ˈfɹuːtəɹə/
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One who sells fruit.
- [T]he very ſame day did I fight with one Samſon Stockefiſh a Fruiterer behinde Greyes Inne: Ieſu, Ieſu, the mad dayes that I haue ſpent!
- And Knight laughed, and drew her close and kissed her the second time, which operations he performed with the carefulness of a fruiterer touching a bunch of grapes so as not to disturb their bloom.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。