fruitmonger
nounEtymology From fruit + monger.
1
One who sells fruit.
- 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, […]1995, Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Yearling, published 2001, →ISBN, pages 39–40:
- Dixon has brought a small apple from a fruitmonger's barrow, […]1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 699:
1 more example
- Will and the Duchess sat in the sunshine and shared an apple Will had nicked from a fruitmonger's stall.2012, Karen Cushman, Will Sparrow's Road, Clarion Books, →ISBN, pages 133–134:
- Synonyms
- fruiterer, fruitseller, coster, costermonger