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English

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Raspberry
Ripe raspberries

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From earlierraspis berry, possibly fromraspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latinvinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related torasp(coarse, rough), ofGermanic origin.[1]

Noun

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raspberry (pluralraspberries)

  1. The plantRubus idaeus.
  2. Any of many other (but not all) species in the genusRubus.
  3. The juicyaggregate fruit of these plants.
  4. Aredcolour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
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plant
fruit
colour

Adjective

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raspberry (comparativeraspberrier,superlativeraspberriest)

  1. Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
    • 1941 April 10, Elsie, theBorden Cow [pseudonym], “Good Moos”, inChicago Daily Tribune, volume C, number86, Chicago, Ill.,page21:
      It’s a gorgeous ice cream dream…a generous roll of vanilla shaped like a log…sprinkled with toasted pecan nuts…and filled with an egg-shaped center of theraspberriest raspberry ice cream ever!
    • 1979 June,Jell-O, “Now there’s even more magic in a Jell-O® Gelatin Rainbow Cake”, inBetter Homes and Gardens, volume57, number 6, Des Moines, Ia.:Meredith Corporation,→ISSN,page135:
      Raspberry Flavor JELL-O® BRAND Gelatin now tastes evenraspberrier.
    • 1999 June/July, “Contents”, inGarden Design, volume18, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Meigher Communications,→ISSN,page 9:
      Pluck the easiest, tastiest,raspberriest raspberry around.
    • 2009 July 29, Chris Stevens, “Berry my heart”, inThe Daily Item, volume131, number198, Lynn, Mass.,page B2, column 1:
      Apparently, yellow raspberries are no more difficult to grow than red or black, but are deemed a specialty item because only a handful of growers are producing them.[] I have heard, however, that they are sweeter and a little lessraspberrier than the red ones, so maybe I might like them.
    • 2011, Ann A. Rosenstein, “Organic, Conventional and Local foods”, inDiet Myths Busted: Food Facts, Not Nutrition Fiction, Enumclaw, Wash.: Idyll Arbor, Inc.,→ISBN,page244:
      To get raspberries that taste “raspberrier,” and blueberries that taste “bluer” buy produce that’s locally grown, in season, and hasn’t been sitting on the shelf too long, or visit any of the “you-pick-it-yourself” farms for seasonal produce.
    • 2017, Annie O’Neil,Her Hot Highland Doc, London:Mills & Boon,→ISBN,page87:
      This was the third morning running she’d relished the warmth and sugary sweet air of the Dunregan Bakehouse. This first “thawing station” on her bicycle ride into work. It had nothing to do with the fact they also made the fluffiest scones she’d ever tasted. And with lashings of the fruitiest,raspberriest jam in the world.
  2. Of a dark pinkish red.
    • 1985,Prince, “Raspberry Beret”, inAround the World in a Day, performed by Prince and the Revolution:
      She wore araspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store
Translations
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containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries
the colour

Verb

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raspberry (third-person singular simple presentraspberries,present participleraspberrying,simple past and past participleraspberried)

  1. Togather orforage forraspberries.
    • 1903, M. E. Waller,A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company, published1903,page137:
      [] she stuck burrs in my bed and lead me through the nettle-patch when we wereraspberrying, because she knew I did n't know nettles;[]
    • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 37, inAnne's House of Dreams:
      "Owen and she wentraspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
    • 1944, Cornelius Weygandt,The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks, G. P. Putnam's Sons, published1944,page129:
      [] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys wereraspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
    • 1976, Emily Ward,The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward, Newport Press (1976),page 4:
      My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might goraspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
    • 1988, Charles McCarry,The Bride of the Wilderness[1], MysteriousPress.com, published2011,→ISBN:
      In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, whileraspberrying, she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.

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References

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  1. ^Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.

Etymology 2

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Cockney rhyming slang, fromraspberry tart =fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it). Compareraspberry ripple =cripple.

Noun

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raspberry (pluralraspberries)

  1. (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing offlatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form oftickling) used humorously or to express derision.
    Synonyms:(US)Bronx cheer,razz
    • 2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, inRAIL, number945, page 8:
      Of the announcement, Osborne said: "They have spent a hundred billion pounds of public money and they've got a massiveraspberry from everyone as far as I can see. As a PR exercise, it's been an object lesson in how not to make a government announcement."
  2. (derogatory, colloquial) A physically disabled person.
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noise imitative of a fart
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Verb

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raspberry (third-person singular simple presentraspberries,present participleraspberrying,simple past and past participleraspberried)

  1. (colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
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