Etymology

tutti-frutti

Today it means: A variety of ice cream (or, formerly, other confection) that contains chopped candied fruit. Full definition →

Sicilian tutti frutti
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The story

  1. Sicilian · borrowed fromtutti frutti“all fruits”
  2. English todaytutti-frutti

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.