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Fruit, fruity, and fruitcake, as well as its many variations, are slang or even sexual slang terms which have various origins. These terms have often been used derogatorily to refer to LGBT people. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Usually used as pejoratives , the terms have also been re-appropriated as insider terms of endearment within LGBT communities. [ 3 ]
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Fruitopia, from fruit and utopia; Fudgsicle, from fudge and popsicle; Funimation, from fun and animation; Garmin, from Gary Burrell and Min Kao; Googleplex, from Google and complex (meaning a complex of buildings) [b] Groupon, from group and coupon; Ideanomics, from idea and economics; Imagineering, from Imagine (or Imagination) and Engineering
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The word is obviously truncated from fruiterer, and the "fruit" the person is "selling" or "buying" is evidently a banana - i.e., a penis. This does, I think, strongly suggest a definite origin of the further-truncated slang term under discussion, from fruiter to fruit. Nuttyskin 14:58, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
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a fruit flavoured dessert set with gelatin (US: Jell-O (trademark)) a type of condiment, e.g. mint jelly a clear or translucent preserve made from the liquid of fruits boiled in sugar and set with pectin, specifically without pieces of fruit (e.g. 'crab apple jelly') (occasionally) fruit preserve with fruit pieces (UK: Jam) Jersey