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fruity, a.|ˈfruːtɪ|
[f. fruit n. + -y1.]
1. Of or pertaining to or resembling fruit.
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 72 A fruity taste. 1817L. Hunt Let. to C. C. Clarke in Gentl. Mag. May (1876) 600 All that is fine, floral, and fruity. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 81 The flowery calix, full surcharged With fruity promise. 1858Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. iv. (1864) 91 The succulent peach gathers its fruity parts..about the nut or stone. a1861Mrs. Browning Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) II. 131, I never saw a blooming girl of sixteen with a more fruity hopefulness in her countenance.
2. Of wine: Having the taste of the grape.
1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xii. 151 Whether he would wish to try a fruity port with greater body. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xxvii. 281 A glass of good fruity port—and yours is capital. 1855Athenæum 13 Oct. 1194 Genuine Masdeu is a very fine fruity wine.
3. colloq. Full of rich or strong quality; highly interesting, attractive, or suggestive. Cf. juicy a. 2, spicy a. 7.
1900T. Hopkins Silent Gate ii. 45 When pulled up short, his language was of the Dials, fruity. 1915T. Burke Nights in Town 337 A popular murder, fruity, cleverly done, and with a sex interest. 1921Wodehouse Indiscretions of Archie 299 It's here now. The dickens of a fruity picture. 1925Weekly Westminster 19 Sept. 522/3 Mr. John Garside's Young Launcelot is more intelligent, even if it is like the work of a fruity comedian without his fruitiness. 1928S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xv. 201 An unusually ‘fruity’ political scandal connected with bribery. 1938G. Heyer Blunt Instrument xi. 204 It might strike him as a pretty fruity idea to do in his victims as clumsily as he could. 1958Wodehouse Cocktail Time xviii. 151 Some minutes later, a fruity voice caressed his ear. Albert Peasemarch's mentor, Coggs, had advised making the telephone-answering voice as fruity as possible in the tradition of the great butlers of the past. 1959Oxf. Mag. 4 June 452/1 Angela Pedlar would have been wonderful if she could have been twice as fruity and three times as loud; she sounded exciting but far away. 1969Country Life 25 Dec. 1697 A design as robust as it is ostentatious; Renaissance at its fruitiest, Elizabethan at its most exuberant, are gaily mixed together.
Hence ˈfruitiness.
1869Contemp. Rev. XI. 357 Appreciating critics who write about its [a picture's] fruitiness, and juiciness, and pulpiness. 1895Daily News 10 Apr. 4/7 The wines of the last vintage..are wanting in ripeness and fruitiness.
Add: ˈfruitily adv.
1918E. V. Lucas 'Twixt Eagle & Dove 20 England's old waiters must be there, and France's, upon whom most clubmen of any age ought to be able to enlarge fruitily. 1987Financial Times 24 Dec. 11/3 An adaptation by Brian Friel of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (memorable chiefly for Miss Jefford..and Robin Bailey's fruitily surprising peasant pere). |