crotch fruit

9.9

A joking, slightly rude way to call someone's children

noun
/krɒtʃ frut/

NSFW

: fruto del crotch

I would bet he drives very cautiously indeed with his precious crotch fruit attached.

Examples

She often jokes about her kids being her little crotch fruit.
When they became parents, they realized that raising crotch fruit is no easy task.
He decided to take his crotch fruit to the amusement park for a fun day out.

Synonyms

fruit of the loins

vscrotch fruit

Literature

8.9

The children and grandchildren of a person

is an irreverent slang term for one's children

crotch goblin

vscrotch fruit

Offensive

9.9

A young child who is noisy and causes trouble

is insultingly irreverent but not necessarily about bad behaviour

crotch dumpling

vscrotch fruit

Informal

9.9

A silly, clumsy person or a small child who sits in someone's lap

refers specifically to one's own offspring rather than any small silly person

Surface Forms

crotch fruit singular

crotch fruits plural

Morphology

crotch + fruit

A B1 learner who knows 'crotch' (the junction of the thighs/reproductive area) and 'fruit' (metaphorically ‘offspring’ as in 'fruit of one's loins') can plausibly infer this humorous/slang meaning, so the sense is partly recoverable from the parts. However, the expression is a crude, nonce slang formation and relies on metaphorical and cultural register knowledge rather than standard compositional patterns, so it is not fully transparent.

Etymology

Crotch fruit paints a silly picture: it treats children as fruit growing from a parent's crotch, like fruit on a tree. That's why people use it jokingly or a little rudely to mean 'children'.