Ever wondered why somebody called you a cabbage man! the following post make you acquainted with some fruity and veggie metaphors so that you can become an apple in the eye of big banana peachy daughter!
Starting with fruit and vegetable; the two generic words which you may have already known; yet so contrast in meaning..
1.Fruit: Fruit and fruitcake (as well as many variations) are sexual terms which have various origins but modern usages tend to primarily refer to gay men and sometimes other LGBT people. Usually used as pejoratives, the terms have also been re-appropriated as insider terms of endearment within LGBT communities.
Add the term forbidden and we get forbidden fruit which is the term the term most generally refers to any indulgence or pleasure that is considered illegal or immoral and potentially dangerous or harmful, particularly relating to human sexuality.
2.Vegetable: this term is equal in degree of pejorativeness alongside fruit. It usages tend to primarily refer to a unconscious or quadriplegic person who cannot do anything. though nowadays someone lazy and stupid who does nothing of physical activity or who does not make use of brain is decorated with this term.
3.Cabbage: Feel proud if someone calls you that. Cabbage generally refers to dollar bills and if you are called cabbage that signifies others think you have a lot of money!
4.Apple or apple of the eye, noun According to the Oxford English Dictionary, at least since the ninth century, English-speaking people have referred to the black dot in the middle of the iris at the center of the eye as the apple. Apple was a generic term for many fruits of similar shape, in much the same way that corn was the generic term for many types of edible grain. Apparently people thought that what we now call the pupil was a globular solid, like an apple. From a very early period, the apple of the eye also served as a metaphor identifying the person on whom the eye gazed with pleasure.
At about the time that people in England realized that the black center of the eye was not a solid but an opening, they began using the word pupil, from the Latin pupilla, meaning a little girl. (The word pupil indicating a student comes from the same Latin root, pupillus in the masculine, which could be used for an orphan who was a minor and consequently a ward.)
5.Pumpkin:It is basically a term of endearment to a cute child; remember how girls called their boyfriends as you are my pumpkin chumpkin:D.Though if somebody calls you a great pumpkin that means they have a firm belief in your potential yet you have not done anything to show the world what kind of potential you have!
6. Peach: Peaches are sweet so are pretty girls!..I didnt find any sweet or perhaps pretty girls are quite bitter on me thats other story but if your girlfriend is peach you are lucky! it directly means the sweetness and prettiness that she possesses1
7.Banana: invariably this innocent fruit bore the burnt of sex related stories. Think what kind of sex emotions generate when you see your hyper boss.Zilch..so that contradicts the sex relation of banana,a big banana usually means a boss who goes bananas(means overly excited and hyper now and then)! a banana republic on the other hand denotes a politically unstable country.
8. Cherry: as the fruit so the term.The fruit that evokes pleasure(purely stomach related i am not going below that)..relates to a extremely sweet girl who is virgin too!
9. Potato: See the shape guess the meaning: refers to someone who does nothing!..if it sits on couch...couch potato!..though hot potato generally refers to a topic too hot to handle.
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