tutti-frutti
/ˌtuːtɪˈfɹuːtɪ/ · noun
Meaning
- A variety of ice cream (or, formerly, other confection) that contains chopped candied fruit.
- Candied raw papaya (unripened papaya).
- A male homosexual.
- A type of flavored cocaine.
- A type of inhalable, powdered drug.
Etymology / origin
From Sicilian tutti frutti (“all fruits”), so attested in 1838 for a kind of sorbet.
- tutti frutti(scn)→
- tutti-frutti (English)
- Relations: der
Related words
Descendant words
- טוטי־פֿרוטי(Yiddish) (bor)
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