fruity adj.3
(US) homosexual; effeminate.
![]() | (con. 1910s) Studs Lonigan (1936) 31: I tell you he’s fruity. | Young Lonigan in|
![]() | On Broadway 21 Mar. [synd. col.] He’s as fruity as a nutcake. | |
![]() | Naked Lunch (1968) 134: ‘Christ?’ sneers the vicious, fruity old Saint [...] That cheap ham! | |
![]() | Carny Kill (1993) 81: He was busy putting himself into a bright, severely-cut sports jacket that was a trifle fruity for my taste. | |
![]() | Rushes (1981) 67: You fruity shit, lay off! | |
![]() | Cat’s Eye (1989) 215: His scorn for boys who give a hoot about how they look is devastating. He calls them fruity clothes-horses. | |
![]() | 🎵 Bitch nigga scared to death, act fruity, yo. | ‘Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See’|
![]() | College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Fruity (adj.) 1. Gay. | |
![]() | Now She’s Gone 111: I got a job assisting this guy named Fabulous Freddy, an interior designer. Bruce referred to my job as ‘the assistant to a very fruity guy.’. | |
![]() | Hilliker Curse 18: Criswell was a fruity guy with a cape. | |
![]() | Kimberly’s Capital Punishment (2023) 361: The fruity medic medic mutters something into his walkie-talkie. | |
![]() | Rough Trade [ebook] ‘Frankly, I been thinking you were on the fruity side’. |