fruity

fruity

English

Etymology

fruit +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːti

Adjective

fruity (comparative fruitier, superlative fruitiest)

1. Containing fruit or fruit flavoring.

   That moist and fruity dish is simply delectable.

2. Similar to fruit or tasting of fruit.
3. (informal) Mad, crazy.
4. (informal, derogatory, LGBT, of a male) Effeminate or otherwise flamboyant or homosexual.
5. (Britain, informal) Sexually suggestive.

   His text message was filled with fruity language.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insane

Derived terms

• fruitiness

Translations

containing fruit or fruit flavouring

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: hedelmäinen (fi) German: fruchtig (de) Hungarian: gyümölcsös (hu)

Norwegian: Bokmål: fruktig Nynorsk: fruktig Spanish: afrutado (es)