Synonyms:
grocer
Meaning: a retail merchant who sells foodstuffs (and some household supplies)
Usage examples
What time does the dinner bell ring and who squares it with the grocer?
"I thought I would just pop across from the grocer's," she said. "What a pretty scarf, dear!
It originated with the housemaid whose brother was a reformed burglar now employed in a grocer's shop.
It was odd to go to your grocer's every day like that: groceries twice a week was sufficient for most people.
If he beats his mother-in-law, and eats asparagus with the sugar-tongs, and doesn't pay his grocer, the public have a right to know it.
Withers had answered the telephone, and came to announce that Twemlow the grocer regretted he had only two large tins of corned beef, but--
Now she had already noticed that Elizabeth had paid visits to the grocer's on three consecutive days (three consecutive days: think of it!), and given that her purchases on other occasions had been on the same substantial scale as to-day, it became a matter of thrilling interest as to where she kept these stores.
Tell a plains Indian that he has failed to steal horses from the neighbouring tribe, or tell a man living in bourgeois society that he has failed to pay his bills at the neighbouring grocer's, and the results are the same. Each, plains Indian and bourgeois, is smeared with a slightly different veneer, that is all.
From here on the floor above the street she could easily look into Elizabeth's basket, and she certainly was carrying nothing away with her from the grocer's, for the only thing there was a small bottle done up in white paper with sealing wax, which, Diva had no need to be told, certainly came from the chemist's, and was no doubt connected with too many plums.