greengroceressn.
/ˌɡriːnɡrəʊsəˈrɛs/, /ˌɡriːŋɡrəʊsəˈrɛs/, /ˈɡriːnˌɡrəʊsərᵻs/, U.S. /ˈɡrinˌɡroʊsərəs/ A female greengrocer.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of fruit and vegetables > woman
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greengroceress1839
1839 Bentley's Misc. Oct. 347 ‘Come in this minute, child!’ screamed the senior green-groceress.
1884 Academy 16 Feb. 107/3 The motherly Genoese greengroceress..is a charming sketch.
1924 J. D. Denniston Greek Literary Crit. i. 34 Aristophanes constantly taunts Euripides with being the son of a greengroceress.
1987 R. Russell tr. B. P. Galdós Our Friend Manso ii. 10 I have become accustomed to..the market's noisy disorder—it even seems as if the shouts of the green-groceresses encourage me to meditate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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