Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A retail dealer in groceries; a grocer.

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  • noun A male grocer.

Etymologies

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grocery +‎ -man

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Examples

  • Also, the wives and families of the traitors were ostracized, while the corner groceryman who sold provisions to them was boycotted.

    Chapter 15: Last Days 2010

  • Portuguese groceryman who never permitted my bill to go beyond four dollars.

    Chapter 25 2010

  • One might easily have set him down as a retired groceryman -- wholesale perhaps, but none the less a groceryman.

    A Lost Story 1996

  • Both had been observing the young groceryman and were so impressed with him that they offered him the post, which he accepted.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • Both had been observing the young groceryman and were so impressed with him that they offered him the post, which he accepted.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • Both had been observing the young groceryman and were so impressed with him that they offered him the post, which he accepted.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • This may be petit bourgeois idealism, but the groceryman, the bar owner making 300 pesos is not petit bourgeois at all, is he?

    TEXT OF CASTRO HAVANA UNIVERSITY SPEECH 1968

  • He swizzled his glass and stared at me, managing to look like a New England groceryman about to tell off one of the summer people.

    Double Star Heinlein, Robert A. 1956

  • Sitting in the smoking room of the hotel that evening I heard some men mention names that were familiar to me, and I discovered the talker to be a groceryman.

    A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" William H. Maher

  • The first time he gave it to an old groceryman he knew to keep for him.

    A Portrait of Old George Town Grace Dunlop Peter

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