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fruitsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From fruit + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised by fruitiness or fruitfulness.
   • "[…] There are mountaines, hils, plaines, valleyes, rivers and brookes, all running most pleasantly in a faire Bay (Chesapeake) compassed but for the mouth (the capes) with fruitsome and delightsome land." 1913, written circa 1781, Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.:
   • The Peacock is essentially an old man's pub, one of the last left in this part of south London, where one can prop up the bar and talk shit, undistracted by fruitsome student wenches and pig-ignorant rugger buggers. 2008, David Giles, Swaggering Swanks, page 87:
   • Green, fertile, flowery, fruitsome, full of men; […] 1889, Philip James Bailey, Festus, page 33:
   • "If the plan proves fruitsome I may be relieved of class work and appointed lecturer in Morality to the whole school." 1912, Percival Christopher Wren, Dew and Mildew:
   • But the coming is not fruitsome, "Factory closed, we cannot pay." 1898, The New Time: A Magazine of Social Progress:

Forms

Synonyms

fruitful · fruity