单词 | dayberry |
释义 | dayberryn. English regional (south-western and Kent). Now historical and rare. = gooseberry n. 1. Cf. dewberry n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > gooseberry gooseberry?1533 groser1548 St John's berry1561 dewberry1578 thorn-grape1578 feaberry1597 pearl gooseberry1688 wineberry1703 dayberry1736 honey-blob1746 blobc1750 groset1786 goosegog1823 Worcesterberry1923 golden berry1930 1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms Dabberries pl., gooseberries. a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1839) 53 Aye, zure; and her, leaning over the hatch, look'd delighted to zee es, and wid always dole out zomething—a tetty o' rosen, or ripe deberries, christlings, or mazzards, or crumplings. 1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Deberries, gooseberries. Devon. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 17/1 Day-berry, the wild gooseberry. 1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 19 Deberries, fruit of Ribes Grossularia, L. 1990 J. Ayto Glutton's Dict. 126 What does seem clear is that before the name gooseberry was adopted, the fruit was called thevethorn.., and that thevethorn survived dialectically well into the nineteenth century, both as theabe, thepe, and thape in Scotland, Yorkshire, and East Anglia and in the slightly altered forms feaberry and dayberry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1736 |
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