Fruity means tasting strongly of ripe fruit. A fruity wine, a fruity flavour, fruity and sweet.
In wine it is a real descriptive term and does not mean sweet, which catches people out — a dry wine can be very fruity indeed. Of a voice it means rich and deep, and in older British slang it means faintly indecent.
1adjectivefruityTasting strongly of ripe fruit.
“This red wine has a fruity taste of cherries and plums.”
fruity is a flavour.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰrewHg-
Middle English
fruyt
English
fruit
English, today
fruity
Built from
From fruit + -y. fruit comes from Middle English fruyt. From Middle English fruyt, frut (“fruits and vegetables”), from Old French fruit (“produce, fruits and vegetables”), from Latin fruitus (“enjoyment, proceeds, profits, produce, income”), frūctus and frūx (“crop, produce, fruit”) (compare Latin fruor (“have the benefit of, to use, to enjoy”)). Cognate with English brook (“to bear, tolerate”) and German brauchen (“to need”). Partially displaced native wæstm, ofett and æppel (whence modern ovest and apple).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA