punnet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of punnet
First recorded in 1815–25; origin obscure
Example Sentences
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Jacqueline Nemorin, from Mauritius, shared her punnet of strawberries with the women sat next to her.
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2022
"It's about consistent quality - so, as much of that fruit as possible being suitable for a supermarket punnet, and having a plant that presents the fruit well to the picker."
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2021
We eat the perfect ones right from the punnet, but any blemished or slightly squashed ones – and there are almost always a few – get special treatment.
From The Guardian • May 31, 2019
How much would you pay for a punnet of raspberries?
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2013
He occasionally coins words such as Potamology for the study of rivers, and Chapter cxxxiv is headed— "A transition, an anecdote, an apostrophe, and a pun, punnet, or pundigrion."
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
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