groceryn.

Brit.

/ˈɡrəʊs(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈɡroʊs(ə)ri/

Forms: late Middle English groseri, late Middle English grosery, late Middle English–1500s grocerye, late Middle English– grocery, 1500s–1600s grossery.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French grocerie.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman grocerie, groserie, groceri goods sold by a wholesale dealer or merchant (c1382), guild of grocers (1401) < grocer grocer n. + -ie -y suffix³. Compare post-classical Latin grossaria wholesale merchandise, especially spices, confectionery, and foodstuffs (1439).

†1. With the. The Company of Grocers of London (see grocer n. 1). Obsolete.In quot. 1419 apparently with reference to the altar of the Grocer’s Company in the church of St Antholin (or Antonine) in the City of London.

ΚΠ

1419 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 201 (MED) Thes ben the ornamentes of the Altar of the Grocery that Sir Simon Ruggy, prest, hath resseyved.

1442–3 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 272 This is the acompt of the..Wardeynes of the Grocery of London of al maner Charges and discharges occupied in thayre tyme.

2. Goods, esp. foods, sold by a grocer or at a grocer's shop, supermarket, etc.

a. In singular, considered collectively.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by grocer or greengrocer

grocery1436

groceries1635

greengrocery1742

a1450 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Laud) in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 179 Wee bene ageyne charged wyth merceyre, Haburdasshere ware, and wyth grocerye.

1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) ii. sig. C Our Ladies in the Court were but browne sugarcandy, as grosse as grocery to her.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 47 Confections, and preserves, of all sorts, spices, and all sorts of grocery come from China.

1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves xiv. 245 She had been sent with a parcel of grocery to a cottage.

1935 G. Bullett Jury xxiii. 234 I had to open a parcel of grocery to find the right kind of biscuits.

2010 Grocer Feb. 11/2 We expect to generate more contribution from grocery than from fuel in our current year and are working to provide a full convenience offering.

b. In plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by grocer or greengrocer

grocery1436

groceries1635

greengrocery1742

1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 6 Merchants of Tinne, Spices, and other things called groceries.

1635 Rec. Merchants Alnwick in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 130 Any sort of grosseries or maynchester [i.e. Manchester] wares.

1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xvii. 112 Mosco supplies it with groceries.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xii. 114 A deal box before him to bring home groceries in.

1830 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 8 To get his groceries and dainties furnished gratis by his grandmother.

1843 N. Z. Gaz. 19 Apr. The undersigned..feels it his duty to offer to the public a choice selection of Groceries and other articles of general use in families.

1951 Z. N. Hurston Let. 15 July in Life in Lett. (2002) 671 I want to stock up with enough groceries to last me until I am through with what I have laid out.

2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 138 On the outskirts of town we stopped at a roadside shop that sold liquor, ground provisions and a few groceries.

†c. slang.

(a) In plural. An alcoholic drink and sugar. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > sugar and spirits

grocery1839

1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer vi. 44 Malachi called out..‘Hand his lordship over “the groceries”’—thus he designated a square decanter, containing about two quarts of whiskey, and a bowl heaped high with sugar.

(b) With the. Sugar. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar

sugarc1299

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > sugar and spirits > sugar added to spirits

grocery1841

1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning III. v. ii. 107 A pint of brandy, my dear. Hot water and lots of the grocery.

3. The work or business of a grocer; the activity or occupation of selling groceries. Also (and in earliest use): a form or example of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun]

fair trading1685

grocery1689

carriage trade1720

sale or (formerly and) return1795

Labour Exchange1828

security system1831

smousingc1876

postal trade1902

triangular trade1934

switch trading1967

relationship management1970

p-y-o1977

counter-trade1978

pick-your-own1980

counter-trading1983

fair trade1986

carry trade1994

society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in provisions > in grocery

grocery1885

society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > foodstuffs

victuallership1450

greengrocery1749

pork butchering1816

costermongering1822

costermongery1823

cheesemongering1826

costering1851

pork butchery1852

fishmongering1862

grocery1885

1682 W. Ravenhill Case Company of Grocers Stated 1 Various ways of dealing and trading passed under the Denomination of Groceries.

1885 Law Times 16 May 47/1 In the present case the business of greengrocery was not auxiliary to that of grocery.

2015 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 20 July Online retailers..have of late made inroads into the traditional business of grocery and are competing with the neighbourhood shops.

†4. slang. Small change. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively

single money1591

small coin1606

change1633

small change1679

grocery1721

smash1821

loose change1827

shrapnel1974

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Grocery,..small Money as Farthings and Half-Pence.

1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Grocery, halfpence. Cant.

a. Originally U.S. A shop that sells foods and other household supplies; a grocery store.In quot. 1791 perhaps showing grocery in sense 2 modifying shop instead. Cf. grocery shop n.

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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions

provision shop1796

pulperia1818

grocery1828

alimentation1958

1791 in H. M. Brooks Olden Time Series (1886) IV. 43 To be let, a Handsome square Shop..suitable either for a Grocery, West India or Dry-Goods Shop.

1815 Virginia Argus 13 Dec. One part was occupied as a carpenter's shop, another part as a grocery.

1853 J. R. Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 9 We drove up to the grocery to leave and take a mail-bag.

1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 74 The bottom of the street, it had a sweet-shop, a bakery, a grocery, a butcher and a fish and chips.

2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 14 July a7/2 It provides exactly what a small neighborhood grocery and deli is supposed to—it's a place for a quick, fun lunch or a larder stock-up.

b. U.S. A bar, a tavern; a liquor store. Cf. grocery store n. 2. Now historical.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > parlour or snug

parlour1631

box1691

grocery1806

snuggery1829

snug1838

snug1860

bar-parlour1876

beer-parlour1925

1804 Aurora Gen. Advertiser (Philadelphia) 2 Oct. 2/5 The last resort of those of them who had a little money left, was to return to the city and set up small groceries and dram-shops, to the utter ruin of their own morals, as well as the morals of our fellow citizens.

1830 Jeffersonian (Albany, N.Y.) 30 June Wilson told the Sheriff to take the jury to a grocery, that he might treat them.

1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master xi. 99 I must a took a little too much at Welch's grocery.

1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 201 The Missouri state line, all along which were placed the so-called ‘groceries’, which were nothing more than grog-shops.

2014 C. R. Lobel Urban Appetites iii. 78 A surfeit of groceries was one marker of a slum neighborhood, much like a concentration of liquor stores is a marker of poor neighborhoods in today's cities.

Phrases

to make (the) groceries.

a. U.S. regional. To provide food and sustenance; to earn enough money to live on.

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society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > buy provisions

market1636

cater1760

society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay for maintenance or upkeep

to keep in stipend1545

1894 Islander (Friday Harbor, Washington) 15 Nov. Try my way, farmers' wives, and see how you can help to make the groceries and still have a few dollars for spending money to get that present for your husband.

1947 Denton (Texas) Rec.-Chron. 16 Nov. I work..five days of the week to make groceries for the family.

1992 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. (City ed.) 1 As the economy went to hell, they needed to do something else to make the groceries.

b. U.S. regional (southern). To go shopping for groceries.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > buy provisions

market1636

cater1760

1967 Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 20 Aug. 1/2 Me and..my wife, and my little girl..was just getting back from making groceries in Arcola.

2009 @TasteeCandy 29 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 13 July 2021) I have no coinz til Monday but I'll cook if u make the groceries!

2014 States News Service (Nexis) 4 Feb. Whole Foods Market..is not only a place to make groceries, but a testament to the vibrancy of the communities along Broad Street and New Orleans more generally.

Compounds

C1. General use as a modifier (in sense 2a), as in grocery bag, grocery bill, grocery delivery, grocery trade, etc.

ΚΠ

1554–5 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 7 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 245 Shall not sell or cause to be solde by Retaile, any..Haberdashe wares Grocery wares Mercerye wares.

1736 London Evening Post 28 Feb. 3/1 Benjamin Williams, Grocer,..will sell..all Sorts of fine Teas, Coffee, Chocolate, and all other Goods in the Grocery Trade.

1775 Daily Advertiser 4 Dec. 4/3 A very convenient old-accustomed Shop, in the Chocolate-making and Grocery Business.

1880 J. E. Murdoch Stage xii. 248 Our cargo of fresh fish, claret, champagne, and sundry other grocery items,..we happily found in nowise injured.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 55/1 (advt.) Free Recipe Book tells how to cut down your meat and grocery bills.

1979 L. Kallen Introd. C. B. Greenfield xii. 144 My grocery bag of chicken, shrimp, olives, pimientos.

2020 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 2 Apr. With millions of Americans stuck in their homes because of the coronavirus pandemic, demand for grocery delivery..has skyrocketed.

C2.

grocery captain n. rare (now historical) the captain of a ship engaged in the East India trade.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master > of specific type of vessel

shouterc1325

patron?a1425

trowman1429

balinger-master1463

Master of the Barge1480

wafter1482

bargemaster1648

trierarch1656

hoyman1666

collier-master1723

country captain1769

slave-captain1808

grocery-captain1816

hide-drogher1841

pentecontarch1851

collier-man1881

1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 19 This groc'ry captain now, forsooth, With voice infernal hails our youth.

1999 ‘A. Kent’ Second to None v. 70 This is a ship of war! I'm no grocery captain, damn his eyes!

grocery keeper n. U.S. (now historical) (a) a person who owns or works in a grocery store; (b) a person who owns or works in a liquor store or bar.

ΚΠ

1822 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. 31 Dec. The European party was principally composed of Catalonians, Grocery Keepers, &c.

1827 National Republican & Ohio Polit. Reg. 5 Jan. A table with cakes, apples and spirits..attracts much custom. This grocery keeper has no corporation license to pay for.

1828 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 26 Mar. Owners and commanders of steam boats, city and country, tavern and grocery keepers, private families, &c. &c. are respectfully informed, that the subscriber has just returned from Pittsburgh, with the following supply of superior malt liquors.

1942 Circleville (Ohio) Herald 13 Nov. 3/3 Grocery keepers will not accept coupons for coffee if they have been detached from the ration books.

2006 News Herald (Panama City, Florida) 11 Mar. (Local & State section) 5 b/2 Her husband Jim, served as a preacher and part-time grocery keeper.

2021 M. L. Schrad Smashing Liquor Machine xi. 329 Douglas later accused Lincoln of once being a ‘grocery keeper’—a well-understood insinuation that he'd sold liquor on the sly.

grocery man n. (a) U.S. a person who owns or works in a liquor store or bar (now historical); (b) (originally U.S.) a person who owns or works in a grocery store.

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1832 Auburn (N.Y.) Free Press 4 Jan. Our grocery-men say that water won't freeze, provided you make pretty good grog of it.

1841 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. Apr. 326 He would..borrow money in his mother's name, of the neighbours and grocery men, where he had been accustomed to trade.

1844 Augusta (Georgia) Washingtonian 28 Sept. It would seem that the grocery man, who owned this establishment, was actuated not so much by the love of gain in selling his liquor, as by the consideration of the jolly crowd it would bring around him.

1892 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 17 Feb. In Atchison there is a fight among the grocerymen in selling eggs, and they can be had at retail at fifteen cents a dozen.

1974 D. W. Maurer Kentucky Moonshine (2003) vii. 82 The market could be supplied at a very reasonable price and at a profit for the farmer, the stiller, and the grocery-man who sold it by the bottle or jug.

2009 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 3 Apr. 13 The grocery man accepted the ration cards and payment and put our portions of margarine, cheese and other stuff in a parcel.

grocery paper n. paper used to wrap groceries; cf. grocer's paper n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > wrapping-papers

cap-paper1577

packing paper1590

cap1620

German Lombard1712

wrapping-paper1715

butter paper1727

whitey-brown1761

kitchen paper?1782

emporetic1790

tea-paper1814

needle paper1852

small hand1853

grocer's paper1861

tobacco paper1877

grocery-paper1883

greaseproof paper1894

chip paper1935

toffee paper1958

1796 Leeds Intelligencer 19 Dec. (advt.) Grocery Papers sold Wholesale.

1883 Life Mrs. Prentiss ix. 282 Written on coarse brown grocery paper.

2013 C. Bakken Honey, Olives, Octopus iv. 98 Since cheese must breathe, most of them are loosely wrapped in grocery paper.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).

单词	grocery
释义	groceryn. Brit. /ˈɡrəʊs(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈɡroʊs(ə)ri/ Forms: late Middle English groseri, late Middle English grosery, late Middle English–1500s grocerye, late Middle English– grocery, 1500s–1600s grossery. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French grocerie. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman grocerie, groserie, groceri goods sold by a wholesale dealer or merchant (c1382), guild of grocers (1401) < grocer grocer n. + -ie -y suffix³. Compare post-classical Latin grossaria wholesale merchandise, especially spices, confectionery, and foodstuffs (1439). †1. With the. The Company of Grocers of London (see grocer n. 1). Obsolete.In quot. 1419 apparently with reference to the altar of the Grocer’s Company in the church of St Antholin (or Antonine) in the City of London. ΚΠ 1419 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 201 (MED) Thes ben the ornamentes of the Altar of the Grocery that Sir Simon Ruggy, prest, hath resseyved. 1442–3 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 272 This is the acompt of the..Wardeynes of the Grocery of London of al maner Charges and discharges occupied in thayre tyme. 2. Goods, esp. foods, sold by a grocer or at a grocer's shop, supermarket, etc. a. In singular, considered collectively. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by grocer or greengrocer grocery1436 groceries1635 greengrocery1742 a1450 ( Libel Eng. Policy (Laud) in T. Wright Polit. Poems & Songs (1861) II. 179 Wee bene ageyne charged wyth merceyre, Haburdasshere ware, and wyth grocerye. 1608 T. Middleton Familie of Love (new ed.) ii. sig. C Our Ladies in the Court were but browne sugarcandy, as grosse as grocery to her. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 47 Confections, and preserves, of all sorts, spices, and all sorts of grocery come from China. 1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves xiv. 245 She had been sent with a parcel of grocery to a cottage. 1935 G. Bullett Jury xxiii. 234 I had to open a parcel of grocery to find the right kind of biscuits. 2010 Grocer Feb. 11/2 We expect to generate more contribution from grocery than from fuel in our current year and are working to provide a full convenience offering. b. In plural. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [noun] > goods sold by grocer or greengrocer grocery1436 groceries1635 greengrocery1742 1615 E. Grimeston tr. P. d'Avity Estates 6 Merchants of Tinne, Spices, and other things called groceries. 1635 Rec. Merchants Alnwick in C. Gross Gild Merchant (1890) II. 130 Any sort of grosseries or maynchester [i.e. Manchester] wares. 1753 T. Woodroofe in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xvii. 112 Mosco supplies it with groceries. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xii. 114 A deal box before him to bring home groceries in. 1830 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 8 To get his groceries and dainties furnished gratis by his grandmother. 1843 N. Z. Gaz. 19 Apr. The undersigned..feels it his duty to offer to the public a choice selection of Groceries and other articles of general use in families. 1951 Z. N. Hurston Let. 15 July in Life in Lett. (2002) 671 I want to stock up with enough groceries to last me until I am through with what I have laid out. 2002 C. Williams Sugar & Slate 138 On the outskirts of town we stopped at a roadside shop that sold liquor, ground provisions and a few groceries. †c. slang. (a) In plural. An alcoholic drink and sugar. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > sugar and spirits grocery1839 1839 C. J. Lever Confessions Harry Lorrequer vi. 44 Malachi called out..‘Hand his lordship over “the groceries”’—thus he designated a square decanter, containing about two quarts of whiskey, and a bowl heaped high with sugar. (b) With the. Sugar. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar sugarc1299 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > sugar and spirits > sugar added to spirits grocery1841 1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning III. v. ii. 107 A pint of brandy, my dear. Hot water and lots of the grocery. 3. The work or business of a grocer; the activity or occupation of selling groceries. Also (and in earliest use): a form or example of this. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > other trading methods > [noun] fair trading1685 grocery1689 carriage trade1720 sale or (formerly and) return1795 Labour Exchange1828 security system1831 smousingc1876 postal trade1902 triangular trade1934 switch trading1967 relationship management1970 p-y-o1977 counter-trade1978 pick-your-own1980 counter-trading1983 fair trade1986 carry trade1994 society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in provisions > in grocery grocery1885 society > trade and finance > selling > selling or sale of specific things > [noun] > foodstuffs victuallership1450 greengrocery1749 pork butchering1816 costermongering1822 costermongery1823 cheesemongering1826 costering1851 pork butchery1852 fishmongering1862 grocery1885 1682 W. Ravenhill Case Company of Grocers Stated 1 Various ways of dealing and trading passed under the Denomination of Groceries. 1885 Law Times 16 May 47/1 In the present case the business of greengrocery was not auxiliary to that of grocery. 2015 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 20 July Online retailers..have of late made inroads into the traditional business of grocery and are competing with the neighbourhood shops. †4. slang. Small change. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > small coins collectively single money1591 small coin1606 change1633 small change1679 grocery1721 smash1821 loose change1827 shrapnel1974 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Grocery,..small Money as Farthings and Half-Pence. 1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Grocery, halfpence. Cant. 5. a. Originally U.S. A shop that sells foods and other household supplies; a grocery store.In quot. 1791 perhaps showing grocery in sense 2 modifying shop instead. Cf. grocery shop n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions provision shop1796 pulperia1818 grocery1828 alimentation1958 1791 in H. M. Brooks Olden Time Series (1886) IV. 43 To be let, a Handsome square Shop..suitable either for a Grocery, West India or Dry-Goods Shop. 1815 Virginia Argus 13 Dec. One part was occupied as a carpenter's shop, another part as a grocery. 1853 J. R. Lowell Moosehead Jrnl. in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 9 We drove up to the grocery to leave and take a mail-bag. 1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 74 The bottom of the street, it had a sweet-shop, a bakery, a grocery, a butcher and a fish and chips. 2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 14 July a7/2 It provides exactly what a small neighborhood grocery and deli is supposed to—it's a place for a quick, fun lunch or a larder stock-up. b. U.S. A bar, a tavern; a liquor store. Cf. grocery store n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > parlour or snug parlour1631 box1691 grocery1806 snuggery1829 snug1838 snug1860 bar-parlour1876 beer-parlour1925 1804 Aurora Gen. Advertiser (Philadelphia) 2 Oct. 2/5 The last resort of those of them who had a little money left, was to return to the city and set up small groceries and dram-shops, to the utter ruin of their own morals, as well as the morals of our fellow citizens. 1830 Jeffersonian (Albany, N.Y.) 30 June Wilson told the Sheriff to take the jury to a grocery, that he might treat them. 1871 E. Eggleston Hoosier School-master xi. 99 I must a took a little too much at Welch's grocery. 1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 201 The Missouri state line, all along which were placed the so-called ‘groceries’, which were nothing more than grog-shops. 2014 C. R. Lobel Urban Appetites iii. 78 A surfeit of groceries was one marker of a slum neighborhood, much like a concentration of liquor stores is a marker of poor neighborhoods in today's cities. Phrases to make (the) groceries. a. U.S. regional. To provide food and sustenance; to earn enough money to live on. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > buy provisions market1636 cater1760 society > trade and finance > payment > pay [verb (intransitive)] > pay for maintenance or upkeep to keep in stipend1545 1894 Islander (Friday Harbor, Washington) 15 Nov. Try my way, farmers' wives, and see how you can help to make the groceries and still have a few dollars for spending money to get that present for your husband. 1947 Denton (Texas) Rec.-Chron. 16 Nov. I work..five days of the week to make groceries for the family. 1992 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 22 Aug. (City ed.) 1 As the economy went to hell, they needed to do something else to make the groceries. b. U.S. regional (southern). To go shopping for groceries. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > buy provisions market1636 cater1760 1967 Delta Democrat Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 20 Aug. 1/2 Me and..my wife, and my little girl..was just getting back from making groceries in Arcola. 2009 @TasteeCandy 29 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 13 July 2021) I have no coinz til Monday but I'll cook if u make the groceries! 2014 States News Service (Nexis) 4 Feb. Whole Foods Market..is not only a place to make groceries, but a testament to the vibrancy of the communities along Broad Street and New Orleans more generally. Compounds C1. General use as a modifier (in sense 2a), as in grocery bag, grocery bill, grocery delivery, grocery trade, etc. ΚΠ 1554–5 Act 1 & 2 Philip & Mary c. 7 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 245 Shall not sell or cause to be solde by Retaile, any..Haberdashe wares Grocery wares Mercerye wares. 1736 London Evening Post 28 Feb. 3/1 Benjamin Williams, Grocer,..will sell..all Sorts of fine Teas, Coffee, Chocolate, and all other Goods in the Grocery Trade. 1775 Daily Advertiser 4 Dec. 4/3 A very convenient old-accustomed Shop, in the Chocolate-making and Grocery Business. 1880 J. E. Murdoch Stage xii. 248 Our cargo of fresh fish, claret, champagne, and sundry other grocery items,..we happily found in nowise injured. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 55/1 (advt.) Free Recipe Book tells how to cut down your meat and grocery bills. 1979 L. Kallen Introd. C. B. Greenfield xii. 144 My grocery bag of chicken, shrimp, olives, pimientos. 2020 Chicago Daily Herald (Nexis) 2 Apr. With millions of Americans stuck in their homes because of the coronavirus pandemic, demand for grocery delivery..has skyrocketed. C2. grocery captain n. rare (now historical) the captain of a ship engaged in the East India trade. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > [noun] > captain or master > of specific type of vessel shouterc1325 patron?a1425 trowman1429 balinger-master1463 Master of the Barge1480 wafter1482 bargemaster1648 trierarch1656 hoyman1666 collier-master1723 country captain1769 slave-captain1808 grocery-captain1816 hide-drogher1841 pentecontarch1851 collier-man1881 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 19 This groc'ry captain now, forsooth, With voice infernal hails our youth. 1999 ‘A. Kent’ Second to None v. 70 This is a ship of war! I'm no grocery captain, damn his eyes! grocery keeper n. U.S. (now historical) (a) a person who owns or works in a grocery store; (b) a person who owns or works in a liquor store or bar. ΚΠ 1822 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. 31 Dec. The European party was principally composed of Catalonians, Grocery Keepers, &c. 1827 National Republican & Ohio Polit. Reg. 5 Jan. A table with cakes, apples and spirits..attracts much custom. This grocery keeper has no corporation license to pay for. 1828 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 26 Mar. Owners and commanders of steam boats, city and country, tavern and grocery keepers, private families, &c. &c. are respectfully informed, that the subscriber has just returned from Pittsburgh, with the following supply of superior malt liquors. 1942 Circleville (Ohio) Herald 13 Nov. 3/3 Grocery keepers will not accept coupons for coffee if they have been detached from the ration books. 2006 News Herald (Panama City, Florida) 11 Mar. (Local & State section) 5 b/2 Her husband Jim, served as a preacher and part-time grocery keeper. 2021 M. L. Schrad Smashing Liquor Machine xi. 329 Douglas later accused Lincoln of once being a ‘grocery keeper’—a well-understood insinuation that he'd sold liquor on the sly. grocery man n. (a) U.S. a person who owns or works in a liquor store or bar (now historical); (b) (originally U.S.) a person who owns or works in a grocery store. ΚΠ 1832 Auburn (N.Y.) Free Press 4 Jan. Our grocery-men say that water won't freeze, provided you make pretty good grog of it. 1841 Amer. Phrenol. Jrnl. Apr. 326 He would..borrow money in his mother's name, of the neighbours and grocery men, where he had been accustomed to trade. 1844 Augusta (Georgia) Washingtonian 28 Sept. It would seem that the grocery man, who owned this establishment, was actuated not so much by the love of gain in selling his liquor, as by the consideration of the jolly crowd it would bring around him. 1892 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 17 Feb. In Atchison there is a fight among the grocerymen in selling eggs, and they can be had at retail at fifteen cents a dozen. 1974 D. W. Maurer Kentucky Moonshine (2003) vii. 82 The market could be supplied at a very reasonable price and at a profit for the farmer, the stiller, and the grocery-man who sold it by the bottle or jug. 2009 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 3 Apr. 13 The grocery man accepted the ration cards and payment and put our portions of margarine, cheese and other stuff in a parcel. grocery paper n. paper used to wrap groceries; cf. grocer's paper n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > wrapping-papers cap-paper1577 packing paper1590 cap1620 German Lombard1712 wrapping-paper1715 butter paper1727 whitey-brown1761 kitchen paper?1782 emporetic1790 tea-paper1814 needle paper1852 small hand1853 grocer's paper1861 tobacco paper1877 grocery-paper1883 greaseproof paper1894 chip paper1935 toffee paper1958 1796 Leeds Intelligencer 19 Dec. (advt.) Grocery Papers sold Wholesale. 1883 Life Mrs. Prentiss ix. 282 Written on coarse brown grocery paper. 2013 C. Bakken Honey, Olives, Octopus iv. 98 Since cheese must breathe, most of them are loosely wrapped in grocery paper. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022). < n.1419
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