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fruiter

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From fruit + -er.

noun fruiters

Any organism that fruits. Hypholoma mushrooms are very prolific fruiters.
historical A ship for transporting fruit.
derogatory, slang A homosexual man. Because of increasing awareness during the 1930s, the police department added plainclothes officers to its parks and squares unit to keep the "fruiters" in check. They began surveillance of the known places where gay men might go to meet each other […]
Similar: fruit, batty boy, batty man, botter, bumboy, bum chum, bumder, bummer, butt rider, chi chi man, confirmed bachelor, cock gobbler

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@misc{fruiter_2026,
  title = {fruiter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fruiter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}