fruit up

Language: en

Meaning: To become full of fruit, seeds, or spores.2014, David Mitchell,The Bone Clocks,→ISBN, page12:The grass and weeds come up to my waist and the plum trees are alreadyfruiting up, though most of the fruit'll go to the wasps and the worms, Vinny says, 'cause he can't be arsed to pick it.; To add fruit; Toadornorembellishwith fruit.1971, Francis Oswald Bennett,March of the Little Men, page176:Amy spent the morning baking and this afternoon brought the result — dainty little fancies all fudged andfruited up.1998May 12, Bruce Vilanch, “Andy Williams and me”, inThe Advocate:Even Andy's most recent show featured the star allfruited upas Carmen Miranda for the venerable Manilow number "Copacabana."1984, Andrew Marum, Frank Parise,Follies and Foibles: A View of 20th Century Fads, page71:Miranda would appear allfruited-upmany times.2009,Esquire: The Magazine for Men - Volume 152, page123:"Allfruited uplike that?" I look to Ritchie. "That's quite a gay shandy," he says. "Which most people get ridiculed for. But I figured it's good after a scrap." So I switch to lager, while Ritchie stays with the lemonade beer.; (idiomatic,derogatory,of a pedophile)To grope a young boy.2000, Kevin George Alderson,Beyond Coming Out: Experiences of Positive Gay Identity,→ISBN, page36:I had been "fruited up." There was no distinction made back then that this man was a pedophile, and even my mother told me that this is what queer people do.2014, Eduard Fischer,Chasing the Phantom,→ISBN:My experience with the brothers was that if you were one of their favorites you would be regularly groped. We kids called it “beingfruited up."

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