Crossword clues for greengrocer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greengrocer \Green"gro`cer\, n. A retailer of vegetables or fruits in their fresh or green state.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British English) A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop
WordNet
n. a grocer who sells fresh fruits and vegetables
Wikipedia
A greengrocer, also called a produce market or fruiterer, is a retail trader in fruit and vegetables; that is, in green groceries. Greengrocer is primarily a British and Australian term, and greengrocers' shops were once common in cities, towns and villages. They have been affected by the dominant rise of supermarkets, but many can be found managing small shops or stores in towns and cities and in some villages. Greengrocers can also be found in street markets and malls, or managing produce departments at supermarkets. Such traders typically handle the entire business of buying, selling, and book-keeping themselves.
A syndicated television segment entitled "The Green Grocer" featured consumer advocate Joe Carcione, advising viewers on how to best shop for fruits and vegetables. This popular segment aired during the 1970s and 1980s in the United States and Canada.
Usage examples of "greengrocer".
It was lined with tubs of flowers and little shops, many still bowfronted, which had once been greengrocers, ironmongers, and so on.
May I not say that the usual tether of this class, in the way of carnifers, cupbearers, and the rest, does not reach beyond neat-handed Phyllis and the greengrocer?
She had colloquies with the greengrocer about the pennorth of turnips which Mr.
Linley, had paid no more attention to the rules smartly laid down by Sebastian Grimsdale than did anyone else in Ashdown Dean: the greengrocer, the butcher, the librarian.
On the corner of Yedo-cho and Ni-cho-me streets, greengrocers and fishmongers hawked their wares.
He was soon drest, and they sallied forth together into Covent-Garden, where the greengrocers and fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers, just come in from the country.
The market was called The Greengrocers Guild and only members with keys could shop there.
And there, as if the big greengrocer in the sky, he who smiles favorably on all such hegiras, had finally come back into the office and noticed Arlo's button lit on the board, and sent her to him--there she stood, limned by the fluorescents of dalliance, lush in the simplicity of her skintight yellow ochre capris, seen through a glass starkly, wrestling with a grocery cart in the immense front window of Ralph's.
While Oskar sang glass, far and near, to pieces, occasionally thawing the frost flowers on the windowpanes, melting icicles and sending them to the ground with a crash, the greengrocer was a man who attacked ice at close quarters, with hand tools.