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grape

UK/ɡɹep/ US/ɡɹeɪp/ fairly common slang us

noun

1.

any of various juicy purple- or green-skinned fruit of the genus Vitis; grow in clusters

2.

any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English grape, borrowed from Old French grappe (“cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes”), deverbal from graper (“to pick grapes”, literally “to hook”), borrowed from Frankish *krappō (“to hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb- (“hook”) or *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) Displaced Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”). Cognate with Middle Dutch krappe (“hook”), Old High German krapfo (“hook”) (whence German Krapfen (“Berliner doughnut”). Doublet of grappa. More at cramp.

Phrases

  • dessert grape
  • grape cell
  • grape jelly
  • grape juice
  • grape kernel
  • grape smuggler
  • grape smugglers
  • grapes of wrath

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