English Explanatory Dictionary

fruit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
  2. A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically:
  3. The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
  4. The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
  5. Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary.
  6. A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit.
  7. An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.
  8. Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.
  9. A homosexual man, especially an effeminate one.
  10. An effeminate man.
  11. Offspring from a sexual union.
  12. A crazy person.
verb
  1. To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.
name
  1. A surname.
noun
  1. Acronym of false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time.

Pronunciation

[fɹʉwʔ] fro͞ot /fɹuːt/ En-uk-fruit.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-fruit.wav /fɹut/ en-us-fruit.ogg /fɹʉt/

Word forms

fruit fruits fruiting fruited

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- Proto-Italic *frūgjōr Latin fruor Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin frūctus Old French fruitbor. Middle English fruyt English fruit From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin frūctus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”) and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg- (“to make use of, to have enjoyment of”). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Partially displaced native Old English wæstm, ofett and æppel (whence modern ovest and apple). Compare Dutch vrucht, German Frucht, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish frukt, Danish frugt. In the derogatory senses of “crazy person” and “homosexual or effeminate man”, possibly a shortening of fruitcake, or of independent origin, compare Fruit (slang).

Synonyms

fruit batty boy batty man botter bum chum bumder bummer butt rider chi chi man confirmed bachelor cock gobbler dicklicker finocchio finook friend of Dorothy funny boy gay gayboy gaylord gaymo gaywad homo homosexual invert light stepper mary omi-palone punk sausage jockey sausage rider shirt lifter queer Uranian uranist bading big girl's blouse cockney cot-quean cupcake dudelet fakaleiti fairy femboy gentleman ginch girl's blouse girlyman janegirl jessie nancy nancyboy nancy pants pansy Percy poof poofter posy sniffer pretty boy puss-gentleman quiche-eater

Related words

fructose frugivore frugivorous :Category:Fruits fruiting

Derived words

accessory fruit aggregate fruit angry fruit salad atoll fruit dove bag of fruit beautiful fruit dove blue sausage fruit brandy fruit breadfruit butter fruit by their fruits you will know them cackle fruit candied fruit canefruit catapult fruit chain fruit citrus fruit collective fruit compound fruit cream-fruit crotch fruit desert fruit cake doum fruit dried fruit drift fruit egg fruit eggfruit false fruit firstfruit fogfruit football fruit forbidden fruit is the sweetest frankenfruit fruital fruit and flowers fruit bat fruit-bearing fruitbody fruit borer fruit bouquet fruit brandy fruit-cake fruit cake fruitcrop fruitcrow fruit crush fruit cup fruit curd fruit dot fruit dove fruit-dove fruit drop fruit-eater fruiteater fruitery fruit fall fruitfest fruitflesh fruitfly fruit fly

Translations

Afrikaans: vrug Afrikaans: vrugte Akan: aba Akkadian: inbum Aklanon: bunga Albanian: frutë Southern Altai: јемиш Alviri-Vidari: میوه Amharic: ፍራፍሬ Antillean Creole: fwi Antillean Creole: fwitaj Antillean Creole: fwitay Antillean Creole: fritay Antillean Creole: fritaj Arabic: ثَمَرَة Arabic: فَاكِهَة Aragonese: fruita Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܥܘܼܢܬܵܐ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܝܵܝܡܝܼܫ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܹܐܪܵܐ Aramaic: ܦܐܪܐ Armenian: պտուղ Armenian: միրգ Armenian: բար Aromanian: fructu Aromanian: frut Aromanian: poamã Aromanian: carpo Assamese: ফল Asturian: frutu Asturian: fruta Avar: пихъ Azerbaijani: meyvə Babuza: boa Bahnar: plei Bashkir: емеш Basque: fruta Basque: fruitu Belarusian: садаві́на Belarusian: плод Bengali: ফল Bodo (India): फिथाइ Breton: frouezh Breton: frouezhenn Bulgarian: плод Bulgarian: ово́шка Burmese: အသီး Burmese: သစ်သီး Buryat: жэмэс Catalan: fruit Catalan: fruita Chakma: 𑄜𑄧𑄣𑄴 Eastern Cham: ꨀꨯꨝꨱꩍ Chamicuro: sokajki Chechen: стом Chichewa: chipatso Chinese Cantonese: 果 Chinese Cantonese: 果實 /果实 Chinese Cantonese: 生果 Chinese Cantonese: 水果 Chinese: готян Chinese: 果 Chinese: 果子 Chinese: 樹子 /树子 Chinese: 果實 /果实 Chinese: 水果 Chinese Mandarin: 果 Chinese Mandarin: 果實 /果实 Chinese Mandarin: 水果 Chuvash: ҫимӗҫ
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