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grocery|ˈgrəʊsərɪ|
Also 6–7 grossery.
[f. grocer n. + -y.]
1. a. collect. sing. The goods sold by a grocer. b. pl. Various sorts of such goods.
1436Libel Eng. Policy in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 179 Wee bene ageyne charged wyth merceyre, Haburdasshere ware, and wyth grocerye. 1608Middleton Fam. Love ii. iii, Our ladies in the court were but brown sugar candy, as gross as grocery to her. 1635Rec. Merchants Alnwick in Gross Gild Merch. I. 130 Any sort of grosseries or maynchester [i.e. Manchester] wares. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 47 Confections, and preserves, of all sorts, spices, and all sorts of grocery come from China. 1740Woodroofe in Hanway's Trav. (1762) I. ii. xvii. 75 Mosco supplies it with groceries. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xii, A deal box before him to bring home groceries in. 1830Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 126 To get his groceries and dainties furnished gratis by his grand⁓mother. 1865Baring-Gould Werewolves xiv. 245 She had been sent with a parcel of grocery to a cottage.
2. The trade of a grocer.
1689Ravenhill Acc. Comp. Grocers 1 Various ways of Dealing and Trading passed under the Denomination of Groceries. 1885Law Times 16 May 47/1 In the present case the business of greengrocery was not auxiliary to that of grocery.
3. slang.
†a. Small change (obs.).
b. pl. (see quot. 1839). the grocery: sugar.
a.1721Bailey, Grocery,..small Money as Farthings and Half-Pence. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Grocery, halfpence, or copper coin, in a collective sense. 1823in Grose's Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. Egan), Grocery, halfpence. Cant.
b.1839Lever Harry Lorrequer vi. 44 ‘Hand his lordship over the groceries’.—Thus he designated a square decanter, containing about two quarts of whisky, and a bowl heaped high with sugar. 1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. v. ii, A pint of brandy, my dear. Hot water and lots of the grocery.
4. U.S.
a. A grocer's shop.
b. A dram-shop.
a.1828–32in Webster. 1853Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. Prose Wks. 1890 I. 9 We drove up to the grocery to leave and take a mail-bag. 1893Gunter Miss Dividends 272 A wedding breakfast..served in the grocery at the side of the track.
b.1806Balance (Hudson, N.Y.) 28 Jan. 31 (Th.), There are 174 licensed groceries in the city of Albany. 1830Jeffersonian (Albany, N.Y.) 30 June (Th.), Wilson told the Sheriff to take the jury to a grocery, that he might treat them. 1846W. T. Porter Quarter Race, etc. 104 He went into his favourite grocery or drinking-house. 1847G. F. Ruxton Mexico, etc. xxiii. 189 Every other house [in Santa Fé] was a grocery, as they call a gin and whisky shop. 1856Olmsted Slave States 73 [The word ‘grocery’] in Virginia, means the same thing as in Ireland—a dram-shop. 1871E. Eggleston Hoosier Schoolmaster (1872) xi. 99, I must a took a little too much at Welch's grocery. 1923Dialect Notes V. 240 Grocery, a grocery store where liquor was sold. 1946G. Foreman Last Trek Indians 201 The Missouri state line, all along which were placed the so-called ‘groceries’, which were nothing more than grog-shops.
5. attrib. and Comb., as grocery-goods, grocery-keeper (U.S.), grocery-man (U.S.), grocery-ration, grocery-store(s), grocery-ware(s), grocery-warehouse; grocery-captain, the captain of an East Indiaman; grocery-paper, the paper used in wrapping up grocery.
1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 19 This *groc'ry captain now, forsooth, With voice infernal hails our youth.
1776Adam Smith W.N. i. x. (1869) I. 118 It costs no more to bring *grocery goods to the great town than to the country village.
1839Indiana Ho. Repres. Jrnl. 274 An act to be passed repealing the present law granting licence to *grocery keepers. 1872‘P. V. Nasby’ Struggles 112 The grocery⁓keepers are intimatin' that before long I must begin to pay for my licker. 1888J. Bryce Amer. Commw. II. ii. xliii. 134 Grocery keepers, liquor dealers, insurance, vendors of patents.
1895Pop. Sci. Monthly July 376 One [was] a *groceryman.
1883Life Mrs. Prentiss ix. 282 Written on coarse brown *grocery paper.
189019th Cent. Nov. 833 Lord Wolseley has..on several occasions spoken in favour of a free *grocery ration.
1811B. Rush in J. Adams' Wks. (1854) IX. 637 note, To lessen the number of taverns and *grocery stores. 1875W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 137 A little cluster of houses, including a grocery-store and a blacksmith's-shop.
1554Act 1 & 2 Ph. & M. c. 7 §2 *Grocery Wares, Mercery Wares. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Grocery, or Grocery-Ware.
1769Dublin Merc. 16–19 Sept. 3/1 Thomas Frayne..has opened a *Grocery Ware-house. |