Etymology

grocery

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Today it means: Retail foodstuffs and other household supplies. Full definition →

Middle English grocerye
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromgrocerye
  2. English todaygrocery

From Middle English grocerye, equivalent to grocer + -y. Compare gross. Doublet of groceria.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.