fruitsome

English

Etymology

From fruit +‎ -some.

Adjective

fruitsome (comparative more fruitsome, superlative most fruitsome)

  1. Characterised by fruitiness or fruitfulness.
    Synonyms: fruitful, fruity
    • 1889, Philip James Bailey, Festus, page 33:
      Green, fertile, flowery, fruitsome, full of men; []
    • 1898, The New Time: A Magazine of Social Progress:
      But the coming is not fruitsome, "Factory closed, we cannot pay."
    • 1912, Percival Christopher Wren, Dew and Mildew:
      "If the plan proves fruitsome I may be relieved of class work and appointed lecturer in Morality to the whole school."
    • 1913, written circa 1781, Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.:
      " [] There are mountaines, hils, plaines, valleyes, rivers and brookes, all running most pleasantly in a faire Bay (Chesapeake) compassed but for the mouth (the capes) with fruitsome and delightsome land."
    • 2008, David Giles, Swaggering Swanks, page 87:
      The Peacock is essentially an old man's pub, one of the last left in this part of south London, where one can prop up the bar and talk shit, undistracted by fruitsome student wenches and pig-ignorant rugger buggers.