dogberryn.¹

Brit.

/ˈdɒɡb(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈdɔɡˌbɛri/,

/ˈdɑɡˌbɛri/

Forms:

α. 1500s dogges beryes (plural), 1600s–1700s dogs berry, 1800s dog's berry.

β. 1500s doge berry, 1500s–1600s dog berrie, 1600s– dogberry.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dog n.¹, berry n.¹

Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of dog n.¹ (compare dog n.¹ Compounds 3c) + berry n.¹; in β. forms < dog n.¹ + berry n.¹ With sense 2 compare dog-tree n., and later dogwood n.

†1. In form dog's berry. The fruit of a wild rose, probably the sweet briar, Rosa eglanteria; also (more fully dog's-berry bush) the plant itself. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun]

brierc1000

eglaterea1400

eglantinec1400

hound's thornc1420

dogberry1527

dog-briar1530

sweet-briar1538

brier-bush1562

dog bramble1567

canker1582

dog rose1597

canker rose1606

dog-thorn1694

cynorrhodon1706

bramble-rose1713

Scotch rose1731

white dog rose1770

brier-rose1810

bull-brier1860

missionary1881

burnet-rose1884

1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon cxxxvi. sig. I.ii^v Water of dogges beryes... Cinos batos in latyn.

1676 T. Sherley tr. V. A. Moellenbrock Cochlearia Curiosa 30 Orpin is out-done by the decoction of the leaves, and sprouts of Bramble, or Dogs-berry Bush made with Wine (which is also called Cynosbatus; which..is the same with Cynorrhodon, or Eglantine).

a. More fully dogberry tree. Any of several dogwoods (genus Cornus); esp. C. sanguinea, common dogwood (cf. dogwood n. 1). Now chiefly historical.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun]

gaiterc1000

dog-tree1548

cornel1551

dogberry1551

prick tree1551

hound's-berry1578

hound's-tree1578

prick-timber tree1578

dwarf honeysuckle1597

dogwood1598

sanguine-rod1601

prickwood1691

bloody twig1759

rose willow1798

red osier1807

swamp dogwood1817

stone-berry?1838

bunch-berry1845

cornus1846

silky cornel1848

silky dogwood1900

pagoda tree1978

1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. M j^v The female is called of some doge berry tree: sume call it corn tree.

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xcix. 1283 The female Cornell, or Dog berrie tree.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cornillier femelle, Hounds-tree, Dog-berrie tree, Prick-tymber tree.

1660 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Cantabrigiam 39 Cornus fœmina..Dogberry or Gatter tree.

1732 J. Martyin tr. J. P. de Tournefort Hist. Plants growing about Paris 204 The female Cornel, or Dog-berry-tree, or Gatter-tree, or Prickwood. Common in hedges.

1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1801) II. 198 Cornus sanguinea, Dogberry tree, Hounds tree, Hounds berry, Prick wood, Prick timber.

1823 H. Phillips Sylva Florifera II. 183 It [sc. Cornus sanguinea] is often called female cornel, to distinguish it from cornus mascula, and hound's berry-tree, hound's-tree, dog's berry-tree.

1861 E. Waugh Goblin's Grave 30 Thickets composed of dogberry stalks, wild rose-bushes, hollins,..and fern, mingled with young hazels, and ash plants.

1893 H. Dalziel Dis. Dogs (ed. 3) 97 Among preventives of hydrophobia..in vogue one time or another..; leaves of the dog-berry tree.

1907 A. Gaut Seaside Planting of Trees & Shrubs vii. 77 Cornus sanguinea, Dogberry; Common Dogwood.

1940 W. N. Clute Amer. Plant Names (ed. 3) 98 C. stolonifera. Red Osier..Dogberry tree.

1974 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 17 Apr. c1/1 It [sc. dogwood] was widely known in the 16th century as dogberry, and it has been said that it acquired this name because the berries were so bitter..that they ‘were not fit to be thrown to the dogs’.

b. The fruit of any of these plants (a drupe), formerly used medicinally. Now historical and rare.

ΚΠ

1676 R. Fletcher Char. of True Physician 17 They sell Myrtle leaves for Sena,..Poysons for wholesome Medicines, Dog-Berries, for Buck Thorn, [etc.].

1742 J. Parsons Descr. Human Urin. Bladder i. iv.155 Take Half a Pint of red Dog-Berries, and Half a Pint of Cherry-stones.

1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 68 Dogberry, or Dog-cherry, the fruit of the Dogwood tree, misunderstood as referring to the quadruped.

1884 R. Folkard Plant Lore, Legends & Lyrics xii. 148 Dog Wood (Cornus sanguinea) is the wild Cornel; and Dog Berries the fruit of that herb.

2007 M. Darton Dog the Wag 50 The dogwood is so called only because it bears dogberries, in which the element ‘dog’ implies ‘not suitable for human consumption’.

3. Chiefly North American. Any of various plants of other genera having fruit considered unfit for eating, esp. rowan (genus Sorbus), and the chokeberry, Arnonia arbutifolia. Also: the fruit of any of these plants.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > other berry-bushes and their fruit

redcurrant1633

dogberry1688

amelanchier1693

cassioberry1753

crownberry1798

crowberry1866

Portugal crakeberry1866

bead-plant1878

osoberry1884

pearl berry1884

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory vi. 95/2 The branches therefrom are black, and are further in sunder than bunches of Grapes. Called of some, Wild Vine; and Dog-berries.

1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 117 Its berries [sc. those of the poison ash]..have been called ‘dog berries’.

1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 5 95 Pyrus arbutifolia, dogberry... Pyrus Americana,..dogberry.

1924 A. W. Sampson Native Amer. Forage Plants xvii. 390 Gooseberries (Grossularia).—Other common names are dogberry and hawthorn.

1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 172 Cares, Corn, Dev; dog-berries, Ches, Cumb, Lakes. [local names for the berries of the rowan, Sorbus aucuparia].

1960 R. A. Vines Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines Southwest 413 Choke berry—Also known under the vernacular names of Choke-pear and Dogberry.

1967 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 13 Aug. 6/2 These waxwings are shown perched on a branch of American mountain ash, or dogberry (Sorbus americana).

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 452/2 Bearberry. I have only known it called bearberry. Other names, possibly no longer in use, are dogberry..and rapperdandie... The names all imply uselessness.

2004 S. T. Skeate Nature Guide to Northwest Carolina 33 Common shrubs include three species of gooseberry, Skunk Gooseberry..Roundleaf Gooseberry.., and Dogberry (Ribes cynosbati).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

Dogberryn.²

Brit.

/ˈdɒɡb(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈdɔɡˌbɛri/,

/ˈdɑɡˌbɛri/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Dogberry.

Etymology: < Dogberry, the name of a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing (first published in 1600).

Allusively: an ignorant, self-important official.

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society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > stupid

Dogberry1801

1801 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 14 Nov. (Electronic text) He produces his authority to walk at every guard-house, where he is duly examined and passed by the Corporal Dogberry of the night.

1817 Times 10 Sept. 3/5 How did this Dogberry act at your house?

1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xx. 272 There is no absurdity, no inconceivable ignorance, too great for the local Spanish ‘Dogberries’, who rarely deviate into sense.

1905 H. A. Evans Highways & Byways Oxf. & Cotswolds v. 100 Such a terror were these miscreants,..and so inefficient were the local Dogberries, that they managed to carry on their depredations for nearly twenty years.

1944 H. L. Mencken Diary 5 Feb. (1989) 300 The Russian customs' dogberries, never having seen corncob pipes before,..decided to levy upon them as toys.

2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians iii. 38 The establishment of a centralized police force, abolishing the local ‘watch’, the Dogberrys and Elbows who had kept the peace since Tudor times, tightened the hold of the state.

Derivatives

ˈDogberrydom n.

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society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy > stupid or ignorant

Dogberryism1836

beadledom1860

Dogberrydom1895

1895 J. J. Raven Hist. Suffolk 206 In defiance of Dogberrydom.

1932 E. Weekley Words & Names iii. 33 Dogberry, the foolish constable of Much Ado about Nothing, whence Dogberrydom, approximating in sense to the later Bumbledom.

ˈDogberryism n.

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society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy > stupid or ignorant

Dogberryism1836

beadledom1860

Dogberrydom1895

1836 Times 16 Jan. 4/5 To deal seriously with this disgusting Dogberryism..we beg to call attention to the fact, that this statement of the Chairman is utterly at variance with the truth.

1883 Daily Tel. 7 Dec. Is this firm government? It seems to us Dogberryism in excelsis.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dogberry
释义	dogberryn.¹ Brit. /ˈdɒɡb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌbɛri/, /ˈdɑɡˌbɛri/ Forms: α. 1500s dogges beryes (plural), 1600s–1700s dogs berry, 1800s dog's berry. β. 1500s doge berry, 1500s–1600s dog berrie, 1600s– dogberry. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dog n.¹, berry n.¹ Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of dog n.¹ (compare dog n.¹ Compounds 3c) + berry n.¹; in β. forms < dog n.¹ + berry n.¹ With sense 2 compare dog-tree n., and later dogwood n. †1. In form dog's berry. The fruit of a wild rose, probably the sweet briar, Rosa eglanteria; also (more fully dog's-berry bush) the plant itself. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun] brierc1000 eglaterea1400 eglantinec1400 hound's thornc1420 dogberry1527 dog-briar1530 sweet-briar1538 brier-bush1562 dog bramble1567 canker1582 dog rose1597 canker rose1606 dog-thorn1694 cynorrhodon1706 bramble-rose1713 Scotch rose1731 white dog rose1770 brier-rose1810 bull-brier1860 missionary1881 burnet-rose1884 1527 L. Andrewe tr. H. Brunschwig Vertuose Boke Distyllacyon cxxxvi. sig. I.ii^v Water of dogges beryes... Cinos batos in latyn. 1676 T. Sherley tr. V. A. Moellenbrock Cochlearia Curiosa 30 Orpin is out-done by the decoction of the leaves, and sprouts of Bramble, or Dogs-berry Bush made with Wine (which is also called Cynosbatus; which..is the same with Cynorrhodon, or Eglantine). 2. a. More fully dogberry tree. Any of several dogwoods (genus Cornus); esp. C. sanguinea, common dogwood (cf. dogwood n. 1). Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun] gaiterc1000 dog-tree1548 cornel1551 dogberry1551 prick tree1551 hound's-berry1578 hound's-tree1578 prick-timber tree1578 dwarf honeysuckle1597 dogwood1598 sanguine-rod1601 prickwood1691 bloody twig1759 rose willow1798 red osier1807 swamp dogwood1817 stone-berry?1838 bunch-berry1845 cornus1846 silky cornel1848 silky dogwood1900 pagoda tree1978 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. M j^v The female is called of some doge berry tree: sume call it corn tree. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. xcix. 1283 The female Cornell, or Dog berrie tree. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cornillier femelle, Hounds-tree, Dog-berrie tree, Prick-tymber tree. 1660 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Cantabrigiam 39 Cornus fœmina..Dogberry or Gatter tree. 1732 J. Martyin tr. J. P. de Tournefort Hist. Plants growing about Paris 204 The female Cornel, or Dog-berry-tree, or Gatter-tree, or Prickwood. Common in hedges. 1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1801) II. 198 Cornus sanguinea, Dogberry tree, Hounds tree, Hounds berry, Prick wood, Prick timber. 1823 H. Phillips Sylva Florifera II. 183 It [sc. Cornus sanguinea] is often called female cornel, to distinguish it from cornus mascula, and hound's berry-tree, hound's-tree, dog's berry-tree. 1861 E. Waugh Goblin's Grave 30 Thickets composed of dogberry stalks, wild rose-bushes, hollins,..and fern, mingled with young hazels, and ash plants. 1893 H. Dalziel Dis. Dogs (ed. 3) 97 Among preventives of hydrophobia..in vogue one time or another..; leaves of the dog-berry tree. 1907 A. Gaut Seaside Planting of Trees & Shrubs vii. 77 Cornus sanguinea, Dogberry; Common Dogwood. 1940 W. N. Clute Amer. Plant Names (ed. 3) 98 C. stolonifera. Red Osier..Dogberry tree. 1974 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 17 Apr. c1/1 It [sc. dogwood] was widely known in the 16th century as dogberry, and it has been said that it acquired this name because the berries were so bitter..that they ‘were not fit to be thrown to the dogs’. b. The fruit of any of these plants (a drupe), formerly used medicinally. Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1676 R. Fletcher Char. of True Physician 17 They sell Myrtle leaves for Sena,..Poysons for wholesome Medicines, Dog-Berries, for Buck Thorn, [etc.]. 1742 J. Parsons Descr. Human Urin. Bladder i. iv.155 Take Half a Pint of red Dog-Berries, and Half a Pint of Cherry-stones. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 68 Dogberry, or Dog-cherry, the fruit of the Dogwood tree, misunderstood as referring to the quadruped. 1884 R. Folkard Plant Lore, Legends & Lyrics xii. 148 Dog Wood (Cornus sanguinea) is the wild Cornel; and Dog Berries the fruit of that herb. 2007 M. Darton Dog the Wag 50 The dogwood is so called only because it bears dogberries, in which the element ‘dog’ implies ‘not suitable for human consumption’. 3. Chiefly North American. Any of various plants of other genera having fruit considered unfit for eating, esp. rowan (genus Sorbus), and the chokeberry, Arnonia arbutifolia. Also: the fruit of any of these plants. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > other berry-bushes and their fruit redcurrant1633 dogberry1688 amelanchier1693 cassioberry1753 crownberry1798 crowberry1866 Portugal crakeberry1866 bead-plant1878 osoberry1884 pearl berry1884 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory vi. 95/2 The branches therefrom are black, and are further in sunder than bunches of Grapes. Called of some, Wild Vine; and Dog-berries. 1832 W. D. Williamson Hist. Maine I. 117 Its berries [sc. those of the poison ash]..have been called ‘dog berries’. 1892 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 5 95 Pyrus arbutifolia, dogberry... Pyrus Americana,..dogberry. 1924 A. W. Sampson Native Amer. Forage Plants xvii. 390 Gooseberries (Grossularia).—Other common names are dogberry and hawthorn. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 172 Cares, Corn, Dev; dog-berries, Ches, Cumb, Lakes. [local names for the berries of the rowan, Sorbus aucuparia]. 1960 R. A. Vines Trees, Shrubs, & Woody Vines Southwest 413 Choke berry—Also known under the vernacular names of Choke-pear and Dogberry. 1967 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 13 Aug. 6/2 These waxwings are shown perched on a branch of American mountain ash, or dogberry (Sorbus americana). 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 452/2 Bearberry. I have only known it called bearberry. Other names, possibly no longer in use, are dogberry..and rapperdandie... The names all imply uselessness. 2004 S. T. Skeate Nature Guide to Northwest Carolina 33 Common shrubs include three species of gooseberry, Skunk Gooseberry..Roundleaf Gooseberry.., and Dogberry (Ribes cynosbati). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). Dogberryn.² Brit. /ˈdɒɡb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌbɛri/, /ˈdɑɡˌbɛri/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Dogberry. Etymology: < Dogberry, the name of a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing (first published in 1600). Allusively: an ignorant, self-important official. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > [noun] > stupid Dogberry1801 1801 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 14 Nov. (Electronic text) He produces his authority to walk at every guard-house, where he is duly examined and passed by the Corporal Dogberry of the night. 1817 Times 10 Sept. 3/5 How did this Dogberry act at your house? 1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xx. 272 There is no absurdity, no inconceivable ignorance, too great for the local Spanish ‘Dogberries’, who rarely deviate into sense. 1905 H. A. Evans Highways & Byways Oxf. & Cotswolds v. 100 Such a terror were these miscreants,..and so inefficient were the local Dogberries, that they managed to carry on their depredations for nearly twenty years. 1944 H. L. Mencken Diary 5 Feb. (1989) 300 The Russian customs' dogberries, never having seen corncob pipes before,..decided to levy upon them as toys. 2002 A. N. Wilson Victorians iii. 38 The establishment of a centralized police force, abolishing the local ‘watch’, the Dogberrys and Elbows who had kept the peace since Tudor times, tightened the hold of the state. Derivatives ˈDogberrydom n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy > stupid or ignorant Dogberryism1836 beadledom1860 Dogberrydom1895 1895 J. J. Raven Hist. Suffolk 206 In defiance of Dogberrydom. 1932 E. Weekley Words & Names iii. 33 Dogberry, the foolish constable of Much Ado about Nothing, whence Dogberrydom, approximating in sense to the later Bumbledom. ˈDogberryism n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > [noun] > officialism or bureaucracy > stupid or ignorant Dogberryism1836 beadledom1860 Dogberrydom1895 1836 Times 16 Jan. 4/5 To deal seriously with this disgusting Dogberryism..we beg to call attention to the fact, that this statement of the Chairman is utterly at variance with the truth. 1883 Daily Tel. 7 Dec. Is this firm government? It seems to us Dogberryism in excelsis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1527n.²1801
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dogberryn.1

Dogberryn.2

Derivatives

dogberryn.¹

Dogberryn.²