A punnet is a small light basket for soft fruit. A punnet of strawberries.
It was originally a chip basket of thin wood and is now nearly always plastic. A punnet is a British word that puzzles Americans entirely.
1nounpunnetA small light basket for soft fruit.
“The punnet cost four pounds and held eleven strawberries.”
punnet is a basket.
The word appears in the 1820s and is of uncertain origin, perhaps a diminutive of a dialect form of pound.
unknown. First appears in the 1820s. Perhaps a diminutive of pun, a dialect variant of pound, the weight + -et. The suggestion that it is an eponym of Reginald Crundall Punnett (1875–1967), geneticist and grower of strawberries, is not chronologically possible. The suggestion it was an ancestor of his lacks evidence. Very likely to have originated from the french word bannette, wicker basket for bread proofing.
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