greengrocer

[green-groh-ser]

noun Chiefly British.

a retailer of fresh vegetables and fruit.

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Origin of greengrocer

First recorded in 1715–25; green + grocer

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Examples from the Web for greengrocer

Who could be a better observer than the greengrocer by the mosque or the hospital night watchman?
Gay Syrian Blogger a Hoax?|Asne Seierstad|June 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
In those days you bought them cooked at the charcuterie for the same price that you got them raw at the greengrocer's.
Paris Vistas|Helen Davenport Gibbons
If War is to be the prefix, why cannot our greengrocer find suitable words in the chronicles of strife?
Merchantmen-at-Arms|David W. Bone
Next day I remembered the servant had half-a-sovereign to pay the greengrocer, and I had not seen her since I gave it to her.
More Pages from a Journal|Mark Rutherford

He has been thinking about the Kaiser, the Kaiser who is breaking his heart through the medium of the greengrocer's baby.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916|Various
But the greengrocer from Kent reeled down the street to the nearest public-house.
The Literary Sense|E. Nesbit

British Dictionary definitions for greengrocer

greengrocer

noun

mainly British a retail trader in fruit and vegetables

Derived Formsgreengrocery, noun

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Word Origin and History for greengrocer

greengrocer

1723, from green "vegetables" + grocer.