tutti-frutti

See also: tutti frutti

English

tutti frutti ice-cream

Alternative forms

• tutti frutti

Etymology

From Sicilian tutti frutti (“all fruits”), so attested in 1838 for a kind of sorbet.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌtuːtɪˈfɹuːtɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌtutiˈfɹuti/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːti

Noun

tutti-frutti (countable and uncountable, plural tutti-fruttis)

1. A variety of ice cream (or, formerly, other confection) that contains chopped candied fruit.
2. (India) Candied raw papaya (unripened papaya).
3. (slang, derogatory) A male homosexual.
4. (drugs) A type of flavored cocaine.
5. (New Zealand, drugs) A type of inhalable, powdered drug.

Derived terms

• go tutti-frutti

Translations

variety of ice cream

• Bulgarian: плодов сладолед (plodov sladoled)
• Catalan: tutti frutti (ca) m, tutti-frutti (ca) m
• Dutch: tuttifrutti (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: tutifruto
• French: glace plombières f, plombières (fr) f, tutti-frutti (fr) m
• German: Tuttifrutti n
• Hebrew: תוּתִי פְרוּטי m (túti-fruti)
• Italian: gelato ai frutti misti m, gelato di frutta mista m
• Japanese: トゥッティフルッティ (tutti-furutti)
• Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ಟೂಟಿ ಫ಼್ರೂಟಿ (ṭūṭi frūṭi)
• Russian: моро́женое с фру́ктами n (moróženoje s frúktami), фрукто́вое моро́женое n (fruktóvoje moróženoje)
• Yiddish: טוטי־פֿרוטי m (tuti-fruti)

Further reading

• tutti frutti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia