open-arse
(UK, _, regional) The medlar fruit.
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(UK, _, regional) The medlar fruit.
Origin: From , from , corresponding to open + arse, ‘with allusion to the large cavity at the end of the fruit between the persistent calyx lobes’ – OED3. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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