fruity adj.1
1. full of a rich or strong quality, highly interesting, attractive or suggestive.
DN II:i 37: fruity, adj. Desirable. | ‘College Words and Phrases’ in||
Sporting Times 2 June 2/1: Language of the fruitiest to take down which in short hand would soon tire even the most angelic of recorders. | ||
Psmith in the City (1993) 100: At that time Comrade Bickersdyke was as fruity a Socialist as Comrade Waller is now. | ||
🎵 I'm good old iron, never been known to rust / [...] / Little bit fruity on the crust. | [perf. Marie Lloyd] Good Old Iron||
Black Gang 408: And there is one singularly touching, not to say fruity, bit. | ||
Flirt and Flapper 64: Flapper: [Blind dates] are apt to be very fruity. | ||
‘The Dirge of the Dole’ in Tramp-Royal on the Toby 228: ’Twas all so fruity at first; / And money-for-dirt consoled us. | ||
Indiscreet Guide to Soho 36: Some of our champions would be surprised to hear his fruity comments on their capacity. | ||
Price Is Right 347: Wouldn’t you rather be titillated with some fruity behind-the-scenes gossip about this, your nation’s capital? | ||
Jeeves in the Offing 81: ‘How’s everything?’ ‘Pretty fruity.’. | ||
Fixx 208: Some of the details he gave me were certainly pretty fruity. | ||
Guardian Rev. 12 Nov. 7: Chico had come on board already with the fruity Italian dialect he had allegedly purloined from his barber. | ||
Indep. Rev. 22 Jan. 20: Fruity passages from the Book of Revelation. | ||
Times 19 Aug. 🌐 What is the most sexual chocolate? Many would presume it to be a Flake, given its history of fruity adverts. | ||
Trio 30: [T]he [film unit] drivers were all intensely curious eavesdroppers and compulsive gossips. They sat around all day exchanging bits of fruity information, she knew. |
2. sexually aroused.
(con. 1910s) Studs Lonigan (1936) 86: Studs felt goofy and fruity about having it [...] and he hadn’t better let anyone know he had thoughts like that. | Young Lonigan in||
London Fields 320: Keith, he did love her to wear her frillies. Said it made him feel dead fruity. | ||
Godson 100: Ingersoll [...] was now beginning to get a bit fruity herself from all the Dom. | ||
Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘You’re out somewhere, you’re a bit pissy and a bit fruity. You see some bloke you fancy, so you go up to him and say, “G’day handsome. I feel like taking you home and fucking you”’. | ||
Indep. Mag. 29 May 45: I went to a couple of wife-swapping parties [...] everybody got a bit fruity towards the end. | ||
Urban Grimshaw 205: Then Natasha got fruity. She had these long, lithe legs and they were all over Sparky like a rash. | ||
Private Eye 27 July-9 Aug. 22/3: We’ve got fruity girls [...] and volleyball lovelies. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 125: ‘Down boy. You really are such a fruity old perv’. |
3. painful.
Right Ho, Jeeves 135: A hockey centre-forward at a girls’ school who, in addition to getting a fruity one on the shin, has just been penalised for ‘sticks’. |
4. (US black) emotionally and/or physically unfaithful.
N.Y. Age 7 Dec. 10/5: A woman’s faithless, fruitty [sic] too. | ‘Observation Post’ in
5. (N.Z. prison) of a woman, attractive, sexy.
Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 75/1: fruity adj. good, admirable, awesome: ‘Hey, bro, you've got a fruity as missus. |
6. see fruit adj.1