groceryman
Americannoun
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grocerymen
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Origin of groceryman
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The son of an Irish-born Glasgow groceryman, he quit school at ten, worked around Glasgow for a few years, in 1865 sailed for the U.S.
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The housewife tends to castigate the retail groceryman.
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Grocer McDonald, son of a Knoxville groceryman, built up a chain of 60 stores in Chattanooga.
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"I just bootleg the Gospel," a well-tailored young groceryman told an audience of 1,500 Baptist men in Fort Worth one night last week.
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"Well," said the groceryman, "they will have my sympathy with you alone over there."
From Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
The reason the grocerymen gave Wechsler was that he had become a "controversial" figure.
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No one learned the lessons of innovation better than the nation's butchers, bakers and grocerymen.
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Looking for a new competitive edge, grocerymen found it in trading stamps.
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I sell some apples in the orchard to neighbors, and some to grocerymen.
From The Apple by Various
The men were paid monthly checks and had never heard any complaint from their landlords and grocerymen who were willing to wait for their pay.
From The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it by James J. (James John) Davis
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