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  2. Fruit (slang) - Wikipedia

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    The Coster's Mansion, 1899 sheet music. A costermonger was a street seller of fruit and vegetables. The term, which derived from the words costard (a type of apple) [9] and monger, i.e. "seller", came to be particularly associated with the "barrow boys" of London who would sell their produce from a wheelbarrow or wheeled market stall.

  3. Forbidden fruit - Wikipedia

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    According to Yadin-Israel, Latin authors frequently referred to the forbidden fruit as pōmum, a Latin word meaning "fruit". From this term derived the Old French word pom (modern French pomme), which originally also meant "fruit", but in later times the word took on the narrower meaning of "apple", leading medieval artists to represent the ...

  4. Apple (symbolism) - Wikipedia

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    According to the Bible, there is nothing to show the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge was necessarily an apple. [5] The classical Greek word μῆλον (mēlon), or dialectal μᾶλον (mālon), now a loanword in English as melon, meant tree fruit in general, [6] but was borrowed into Latin as mālum, meaning 'apple'.

  5. Forbidden fruit (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Forbidden Fruit, directed by Henri Verneuil; Forbidden Fruit, a 1953 Mexican drama film; Forbidden Fruit, directed by Sue Maluwa-Bruce, Beate Kunath and Yvonne Zückmantel; Forbidden Fruit, directed by Dome Karukoski; Heart of Men, reissued as Forbidden Fruit, directed by Frank Rajah Arase

  6. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    In fact it is derived from Portuguese marmelada, meaning quince jam, and then expanded from quince jam to other fruit preserves. It is found in English-language sources written before Mary was even born. [70] Nasty: The term nasty was not derived from the surname of Thomas Nast as a reference to his biting

  7. Grapefruit - Wikipedia

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    A hybrid fruit, called forbidden fruit, was first documented in 1750 (along with 14 other citrus fruits including the guiney orange) by a Welshman, the Rev. Griffith Hughes, in his The Natural History of Barbados. [1] However, Hughes's forbidden fruit may have been a plant distinct from grapefruit although still closely related to it. [34]

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  9. Consumption of Tide Pods - Wikipedia

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    Many posts referred to the pods as a "forbidden fruit". [10] [23] Memes involving the Tide Pods included joking about how "delicious" they appear, as well as posting images with the pods on top of food. [25] Vox described the meme as "pok[ing] fun at the idea of consuming the pods, while (usually) stopping short of actually doing so."