FRUITY

balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky

(adjective) informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; “it used to drive my husband balmy”

fruity

(adjective) tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

fruity (comparative fruitier, superlative fruitiest)

Containing fruit or fruit flavoring.

Similar to fruit or tasting of fruit.

(informal) Mad, crazy.

(informal, derogatory, LGBT, of a male) Effeminate or otherwise flamboyant or homosexual.

(British, informal) Sexually suggestive.

Synonyms

• See also insane

Source: Wiktionary


Fruit"y, a.

Definition: Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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