Crossword clues for fruity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from fruit + -y (2). Related: Fruitiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 containing fruit or fruit flavoring 2 similar to fruit or tasting of fruit 3 (context informal English) mad, crazy 4 (context informal derogatory LGBT of a male English) effeminate or otherwise flamboyant or homosexual 5 (context British informal English) sexually suggestive.
WordNet
adj. tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky]
Usage examples of "fruity".
Phosphorescent water-lilies floated like charming faces on the pond and the bush which Mazirian had brought from far Almery in the south tinctured the air with sweet fruity perfume.
Blend tea, which was mixed secretly in Canton with exact proportions of tea and bergamot peel to give a clean, fruity taste.
All the same, when Bev is out in the boat, she fantasizes about the Mississippi, about riverboat cruises and casinos, about fruity cocktails and beer in frozen glasses and maybe watching Mardi Gras from the window of a nice air-conditioned hotel.
On opening a cacao pod, it is seen to be full of beans surrounded by a fruity pulp, and whilst the pulp is very pleasant to taste, the beans themselves are uninviting, so that doubtless the beans were always thrown away until .
Outside an expat bar called the Fruity Ferret we saw a man in a rain-sodden tuxedo being head butted by a youth in a torn soccer shirt.
BLANC Also labeled as fumé blanc, sauvignon blanc grapes are used to make crisp, dry whites of medium to light body that vary in flavor from slightly grassy to tart or fruity.
Letting the aroma of the wine drift to his nostrils, he raised the glass to his lips and savoured its full fruity flavour.
Good-n-Plenty, Spittoonz, Yummy-Mummies, Monkey-Doodles, Bytz-o-Hades, Watermelon Yeehaws, Woolly-Booger Sugar Sticks, Goopyloopies, Mount Caramels, Tootsie Rolls, Big Fat Logs, Gooey-Goony Moon Fruities, Frog Boogers, Newtonian Apple-Bombs, Slug-Bumpies, LavaLumpos, Butternutty Yumdumz, Slimy-limey Leper Tongues.
Mursil the huntmaster, smelling richly of fruity Zeng wine, the bushman, Huy, the prince and his two arms-bearers.
Claire and I had shared the same shoe size, the same taste in music, and the same love of fruity mixed drinks that we consumed in quantity as we primped for our big nights out.
On opening a cacao pod, it is seen to be full of beans surrounded by a fruity pulp, and whilst the pulp is very pleasant to taste, the beans themselves are uninviting, so that doubtless the beans were always thrown away until .
Through the ugly rumble now came the chirrup, the fruity birdcall of the sirens, and already two hunched cops were running low across the street.
It seemed familiar: rich and fruity, with a flatlander accent that was not quite true.
He even had some of the fruitier dialogue ascribed to him in these works by heart, and it pleased him to recite it aloud when there was nobody within earshot.
The brandy had a light taste, unlike the fruitier distillations Derek always stocked.