A lazy or idle person who works with apples; a play on 'drone' (an unmotivated worker) applied to apple cultivation or selling.
Combining 'apple' with 'drone' (a male bee that doesn't work, or figuratively a lazy person). This appears to be a colloquial or dialectal formation from English, possibly medieval or Early Modern period.
The medieval and Early Modern English loved compound insults—'appledrone' was a way to mock someone as both an apple-seller AND lazy, combining job and character in one satisfying word!
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