Definition of FRUITY

fruity

Plural: fruities

Adjective Satellite

  • tasting or smelling richly of or as of fruit
  • informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

Adj

  • Containing fruit or fruit flavoring.
  • Similar to fruit or tasting of fruit.
  • Crazy.
  • Effeminate, flamboyant; homosexual.
  • Sexually suggestive.

Noun

  • Alternative form of fruitie (“fruit machine”).

Adjective

  • Suggestive of or flavored with fruit; eccentric.

Examples

  • His fruity vocabulary included many obscure words that baffled opponents.
  • His text message was filled with fruity language.
  • That moist and fruity dish is simply delectable.

Origin / Etymology

From fruit + -y.

Synonyms

around the bend, balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, haywire, kookie, kooky, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, wacky, whacky, 5150, apeshit, bananas, barking, barking mad, bat-shit, batchy, batcrap, batpoop, batshit, bread baskets, buggish, bughouse, cra-cra, cray, cray-cray, crazed, crazy, crazy as a bedbug, crazy as a cootie, crazy as a cootie bug, crazy as a pet coon, cuckoo, daffy, demented, deranged, distraught, disturbed, doolally, eccentric, fruit loops, fucked in the head, fucked up, gaga, harebrained, hatstand, insane, loon, loony tunes, lunatic, mad, mental, mentally ill, meshigener, meshugge, moonsick, non compos mentis, nonsane, nucking futs, nut, nut job, nutballs, nutso, nutter, off the beam, off the chain, over the edge, potty, psycho, psychoceramic, psychotic, racy, ripshit, risqué, screwy, sicko, squirrelly, starkers, tonto, unbalanced, unsane, wackadoodle, weird, whackjob, whacko, wode, yampy, zany

Scrabble Score: 12

fruity: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fruity: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fruity: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

fruity: valid Words With Friends Word