berryn.¹

Brit.

/ˈbɛri/, U.S.

/ˈbɛri/

Forms: Old English beriae, berie, beriȝe, berge, Middle English–1500s berie, Middle English–1500s bery(e, (Middle English burie), 1500s–1600s berrie, 1500s– berry.

Etymology: Found, with some variety of form, in all the Germanic languages: with Old English bęrie weak feminine, compare Old Norse ber (Danish bær , Swedish bär ), Old Saxon beri (in wîn-beri ), Middle Dutch bēre , Old High German beri strong neuter, Middle High German ber and bere neuter and feminine, modern German beere feminine. These point to an Old German *bazjo-m , as a byform of *basjo-m , whence Gothic basi neuter (in weina-basi ‘grape’). The s type is also preserved in Middle Dutch beze , modern Dutch bes , also Middle Dutch and modern Dutch bezie feminine. The feminine forms Dutch bēzie and Old English berie answer to a Germanic extended form *basjôn- , *bazjôn- . The ulterior history is uncertain: *bazjo- has been conjecturally referred to *bazo-z bare adj., adv., and n., as if a bare or uncovered fruit, also to the root represented by Sanskrit bhas- to eat.

a. Any small globular, or ovate juicy fruit, not having a stone; in Old English chiefly applied to the grape; in modern popular use, embracing the gooseberry, raspberry, bilberry, and their congeners, as well as the strawberry, mulberry, fruit of the elder, rowan-tree, cornel, honey-suckle, buckthorn, privet, holly, mistletoe, ivy, yew, crowberry, barberry, bearberry, potato, nightshade, bryony, laurel, mezereon, and many exotic shrubs; also sometimes the bird-cherry or ‘hag-berry’ (which is a stone-fruit), the haw, and hip of the rose; spec. in Scotland and north of England, it means the gooseberry.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > berry

berryc1000

grainc1315

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun]

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berryc1000

grainc1315

blobc1750

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock

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burrowc885

berryc1000

knapc1000

knollc1000

ball1166

howa1340

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hillocka1382

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colline1641

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knock?17..

tummock1789

mound1791

tomhan1811

koppie1848

tuffet1877

c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxiii. 24 Gif tu gange binnan þines freondes wineard, et þæra bergena.

c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 114 Nym winberian þe beoþ acende æfter oþre berigian.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 124 Breres bereð rosen & berien.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2062 [A win-tre] blomede and siðen bar, Ðe beries ripe.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 121 Þe juse of grapes and of buries [L. mori].

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 207 His palfrey was as broun as any berye.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xvi. x. (Globe) 385 A strong black horse, blacker than a bery.

a1500 Songs & Carols 15th C. 85 Ivy berith berys black.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 212 Two louely berries moulded on one stemme.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 307 For dinner savourie fruits..Berrie or Grape.

1793 R. Southey Lyric Poems II. 149 The cluster'd berries bright Amid the holly's gay green leaves.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone 100 Garlanding the gnarled boughs With bunch and berry and flower.

1883 Birmingh. Weekly Post 11 Aug. 4/7 Last year the heaviest berry shown scaled 31 dwt.

b. loosely. A coffee ‘bean’.

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the world > food and drink > drink > coffee manufacture > [noun] > coffee-bean

coffee1626

coffee-berry1662

coffee-bean1688

berry1712

Java bean1868

Negro coffee1887

1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 360 The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round.

c. slang (U.S.). A dollar; also (in U.K.), a pound. Usually in plural. Hence the berries: an excellent person or thing; ‘the cat's whiskers’.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing

carbunclea1350

swanc1386

phoenixc1400

diamondc1440

broocha1464

surmounterc1500

sovereign?a1513

primrose peerless1523

superlative1577

transcendent1593

Arabian birda1616

crack1637

first rate1681

peach1710

phoenicle1711

admiration1717

spanker1751

first-raterc1760

no slouch of1767

nailer1806

tip-topper1822

ripper1825

ripstaver1828

apotheosis1832

clinker1836

clipper1836

bird1839

keener1839

ripsnorter1840

beater1845

firecracker1845

pumpkin1845

screamer1846

stunner1847

bottler1855

beaut1866

bobby-dazzler1866

one out of the box1867

stem-winder1875

corker1877

trimmer1878

hot stuff1884

daisy1886

jim-dandy1887

cracker1891

jim-hickey1895

peacherino1896

pippin1897

alpha plus1898

peacherine1900

pip1900

humdinger1905

bosker1906

hummer1907

good egg1914

superstar1914

the berries1918

bee's knee1923

the cat's whiskers1923

smash1923

smash hit1923

brahma1925

dilly1935

piss-cutter1935

killer1937

killer-diller1938

a hard act to follow1942

peacheroo1942

bitch1946

brammerc1950

hot shit1960

Tiffany1973

bollocks1981

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a pound

li.c1450

quid1661

strike1680

note1775

scrieve1821

nicker1871

saucepan lid1896

bar1911

berry1918

smacker1920

thick 'un1968

sob1970

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar

skin1834

rock1837

buck1856

scad1856

simoleon1881

plunk1885

clam1886

slug1887

bone1889

plunker1890

ace1900

sinker1900

Oxford1902

caser1907

iron man1907

man1910

berry1918

fish1920

smacker1920

Oxford scholar1937

loonie1987

1918 H. C. Witwer From Baseball to Boches iv. ii. 147 When..I go back to baseball, I can drag down six thousand berries a year.

1920 ‘B. L. Standish’ Man on First 127 It don't take the shine off your little performance. You were there with the berries.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt vii. 103 A fellow that..pulls down fifteen thousand berries a year!

1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 300 You think you're the berries, don't you? Well, you might have been once, but you're a flat-tire these days!

1926 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXIV. 120 That's the berries, that's just right.

1934 Humorist 26 May 482/1 An attachment worth ten thousand berries in the open market.

1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 43 He had what was left of the three hundred berries Hedwig coughed up.

1943 W. Lewis Let. 9 Nov. (1963) 369 No intelligent book could get accepted by a N.Y. publisher, except perhaps a little publisher, who would give you a maximum of a thousand berries.

2. Botany. A many-seeded inferior pulpy fruit, the seeds of which are, when mature, scattered through the pulp; called also bacca. In this sense, many of the fruits popularly so called, are not berries: the grape, gooseberry and currants, the bilberry, mistletoe berry, and potato fruit, are true berries; but, botanically, the name also includes the cucumber, gourd, and even the orange and lemon.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > berry > true berry or hesperidium

berry1809

hesperidium1866

1809 J. E. Smith Bot. 284 The simple many-seeded berries of the Vine, Gooseberry, &c. The Orange and Lemon are true Berries, with a thick coat.

1880 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) vii. §2. 299 The Berry..comprises all simple fruits in which the pericarp is fleshy throughout.

3. One of the eggs in the roe of a fish; also, the eggs of a lobster. A hen lobster carrying her eggs is said to be in berry or berried adj.²

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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > an egg or parts of

spawn1563

berry1768

eye1840

oil-drop1849

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > of or belonging to Malacostraca > of the Thoracostraca > related to or having characteristic of lobster > bearing eggs

in berry1768

berried1868

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > eggs of lobster

seed?1587

berry1768

1768 Mr. Travis in Penny Cycl. (1834) II. 513/2 Hen lobsters are found in berry at all times of the year.

1876 Family Herald 9 Dec. 95/1 A large specimen [of lobster] will yield from five to eight ounces of ‘berry.’

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

berry-bush n.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > berry-bush

berry-treea1398

berry-bush1817

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. vi. 136 Pleased wi' the freedom o' the berry-bushes.

berry-pie n.

berry-tree n.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > berry-bush

berry-treea1398

berry-bush1817

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. c. 991 Hierdes in deserte eteþ þe fruyte of þe wilde bery tree.

berry-bearing adj.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful > bearing or not bearing berries

red-berried1640

bacciferous1656

coccigerous1657

baccated1731

berry-bearing1742

berried1796

baccate1836

berryless1887

1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. xxiv. 140 A bacciferous, or berry-bearing, Tree or Shrub.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 82 Berry-bearing thorns That feed the thrush.

1796 W. H. Marshall Planting II. 313 Frangula, or Berry-bearing Alder.

1933 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 58 400 Wilsonii with leaves as large as Marnockii, but dull green and spiny, also berry-bearing.

berry-brown adj.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown

russet1428

reddish-brown1530

sorrel1534

berry-brown1575

sored1587

russetish1600

Chelidonian1601

weaselled-coloured1607

deer-coloured1611

spadiceous1646

russeted1654

testaceous1688

russety1697

mahoganya1744

red-brown1786

reddy-brown1845

fusco-testaceous1847

mahogany-brown1881

persimmon1897

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxvi. 96 He seemed fayre, tweene blacke and berrie brounde.

1820 W. Scott Abbot II. i. 18 The Friars of Fail drank berry-brown ale.

berry-like adj.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [adjective] > of or like a berry

berried1824

baccate1830

berry-shaped1836

bacciform1839

berry-like1864

1864 Monthly Evening Readings May 161 Berry-like galls are formed on the peduncles.

berry-shaped adj.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [adjective] > of or like a berry

berried1824

baccate1830

berry-shaped1836

bacciform1839

berry-like1864

1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 485/2 Berry-shaped corpuscles seem to be appended.

C2.

berry alder n. (also berry-bearing alder) a shrub ( Rhamnus frangula) = Alder Buckthorn.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] > alder and allies

aldereOE

alderna1325

prick tree1551

black alder1578

aln1589

sporkenwood1599

alder1648

alder buckthorn?1742

orl1747

alder1755

arn1791

Turkey alder1822

Oregon alder1842

berry alder1863

tag alder1891

1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 20 Berry-alder, a buckthorn..distinguished from them [the alders] by bearing berries.

berry-button n. a berry-shaped button.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > button > types of

hair-button1593

frog1635

bar-button1685

frost button1686

sleeve-button1686

berry-button1702

stud1715

pearl button1717

breast button1742

bell-button1775

shell button1789

red button1797

olivet1819

bullet-buttons1823

basket-button1836

all-over1838

top1852

olive1890

pearly1890

nail head1892

1702 London Gaz. No. 3783/4 A..Stuff Wastcoat with black and red Berry-Buttons.

berry wax n. wax obtained from the wax-berry (Myrica spp.), used for making candles and polishing floors (cf. bayberry-wax in quot. 1769 at bayberry n. 2).

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [noun] > derived from plants > specific

myrtle wax1700

piney tallow1843

Japanese wax1859

Japan wax1859

myrica wax1862

myrtle-berry wax1888

berry wax1897

candelilla wax1909

1897 H. Edmonds & R. Marloth Elem. Bot. S. Afr. xvii. 169 The genus Myrica, of which M. cordifolia and others supply the berry-wax.

1913 R. Marloth Flora S. Afr. I. 133 The layer of wax on the berries of some species [of Myrica] is so considerable that it is technically exploited. The farmers boil the berries with water, strain the hot mixture and allow the melted wax to solidify. The berry wax (myrica wax) is of a pale greenish colour and considerably harder than beeswax.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

berryn.²

Etymology: < Old English beorg hill: a variant of barrow n.¹ (While the nominative gave Middle English beruh, berw, barw, barow, the dative beorge, with palatalized g, gave berȝe, beryhe, berye.)It is doubtful whether this quotation belongs to this or to berry n.³:a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Art of Love (1709) i. 8 The Theatres are Berries for the Fair: Like Ants on Mole-hills, thither they repair.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈberry.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

A mound, hillock, or barrow.

ΚΠ

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6143 Vnder ane berhȝe [c1300 Otho borewe].

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 589 Thanne shaltow blenche at a berghe.

a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iii. sig. D.j Heigh derie derie, Trill on the berie.

?1562 Thersytes sig. D.i We shall make merye and synge tyrle on the berye.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 33 Piping on thine Oaten-Reede Vpon this Little berry (some ycleepe A Hillocke).

1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 195 Removing the potatoes to the caves, heaps..ricks, or berrys (for by all such terms they are known in this country).

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† berryn.³

Forms: Middle English bery, 1500s beery, 1500s–1600s berrie, berry.

Etymology: See burrow n.¹

Obsolete.

1. A (rabbit's) burrow. Hence, the spec. name for a company of rabbits.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > group of

berry1486

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren

clapperc1400

cunnigar1424

warrena1425

coneygarth1429

coney-close?1472

coney hole?c1475

berry1486

coney holda1500

coney-clapper1530

coney yard1532

coneyry1570

coney burrow1575

coney gratec1580

coney-gat1591

coney green1599

coney warren1616

coney ground1617

rabbit hole1667

stop1669

rabbit burrow1723

stock1736

rabbit warren1766

stab1838

warrener1864

1486 Bk. St. Albans F vi A Bery of Conyis.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 283^v I haue nede of a feret, to let into this beery to styrt out the conies.

1585 Mod. Curiosities Art & Nat. To make rabbets come out of their berries without a ferret.

1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) ix. vi. 862 It [sc. the penguin]..feeds on fish and grasse, and harbors in berries.

1685 N. Crouch Eng. Empire in Amer. xiii. 165 Musk-Rats who live in holes and Berries like Rabbits.

2. transferred. An excavation; a mine in besieging.

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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > mine(s)

minea1450

undermine1524

minework1583

minery1591

mining1598

berry1608

1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 139 Till one strict Berrie, till one winding Cave Becom the Fight-Field of two Armies.

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† berryn.⁴

Etymology: Compare birr n.¹: perhaps < berry v.¹; or, since found only in Florio and Cotgrave, an erroneous form.

Obsolete.

A gust or blast (of wind).

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of

ghosteOE

blasta1000

blas?c1225

ragec1405

blorec1440

flaw1513

thud1513

flaga1522

fuddera1522

flake1555

flan1572

whid?1590

flirta1592

gust1594

berry1598

wind-catch1610

snuff1613

stress1625

flash1653

blow1655

fresh1662

scud1694

flurry1698

gush1704

flam1711

waff1727

flawer1737

Roger's Blasta1825

flaff1827

slat1840

scart1861

rodges-blast1879

huffle1889

slap1890

slammer1891

Sir Roger1893

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Biffera..a whirlewind, a gust or berry of wind.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Folata di uento..a gaile or berrie of winde.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tourbillon de vent..a gust, flaw, berrie of wind.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

berryv.¹

Forms: Also bery, bury.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse berja.

Etymology: Middle English berien, bery, < Old Norse berja to strike, beat, thresh = Old High German berjan, Middle High German berren, beren, bern; represented in Old English only by past participle gebered. Cognate with Latin ferīre to strike.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈberry.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

1. transitive. To beat, thrash.

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the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person

to-beatc893

threshOE

bustc1225

to lay on or upon?c1225

berrya1250

to-bunea1250

touchc1330

arrayc1380

byfrapc1380

boxc1390

swinga1400

forbeatc1420

peal?a1425

routa1425

noddlea1450

forslinger1481

wipe1523

trima1529

baste1533

waulk1533

slip1535

peppera1550

bethwack1555

kembc1566

to beat (a person) black and blue1568

beswinge1568

paik1568

trounce1568

canvass1573

swaddle?1577

bebaste1582

besoop1589

bumfeage1589

dry-beat1589

feague1589

lamback1589

clapperclaw1590

thrash1593

belam1595

lam1595

beswaddle1598

bumfeagle1598

belabour1600

tew1600

flesh-baste1611

dust1612

feeze1612

mill1612

verberate1614

bethumpa1616

rebuke1619

bemaul1620

tabor1624

maula1627

batterfang1630

dry-baste1630

lambaste1637

thunder-thump1637

cullis1639

dry-banga1640

nuddle1640

sauce1651

feak1652

cotton1654

fustigate1656

brush1665

squab1668

raddle1677

to tan (a person's) hide1679

slam1691

bebump1694

to give (a person) his load1694

fag1699

towel1705

to kick a person's butt1741

fum1790

devel1807

bray1808

to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813

mug1818

to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821

welt1823

hidea1825

slate1825

targe1825

wallop1825

pounce1827

to lay into1838

flake1841

muzzle1843

paste1846

looder1850

frail1851

snake1859

fettle1863

to do over1866

jacket1875

to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877

to take apart1880

splatter1881

to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884

to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886

to do up1887

to —— (the) hell out of1887

to beat — bells out of a person1890

soak1892

to punch out1893

stoush1893

to work over1903

to beat up1907

to punch up1907

cream1929

shellac1930

to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931

duff1943

clobber1944

to fill in1948

to bash up1954

to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976

to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983

beast1990

becurry-

fan-

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 59 Ter ȝe schulen seo berien [?c1225 Cleo. buncin] ham wið þeose deoueles betles.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Berry, to beat; as to berry a bairn, to beat a child.

2. To thresh (corn, etc.). See berried adj.¹

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > thresh

threshOE

tread1382

stampa1425

berry1483

fine1579

thrash1594

to beat out1611

flack1743

cob1796

flail1821

scutch1844

strip1861

1483 Cath. Angl. 29 Bery ..vbi to thresche.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 148 Thrashers that bury by quarter-tale.

1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Berry, to thresh, i.e. to beat out the berry or grain of the corn.

1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Berry, to thrash corn, Roxb., Dumfr.

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3. To beat (a path, etc.). See berried adj.¹

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berryv.²

Brit.

/ˈbɛri/, U.S.

/ˈbɛri/

Etymology: < berry n.¹; compare apple v.

1. intransitive. To come into berry; to fill or swell.

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the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > bear (fruit, flower, etc.)

bearOE

berry1865

1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 402 The wheat, oats and barley..were now berrying full and plump.

1873 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1883) xxx. 167 The late bees were buzzing around him though the linden had berried.

2. To go a berrying, i.e. gathering berries.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > pick berries

berrya1871

a1871 Miss Sedgwick in Life & Lett. 44 I went with herds of school-girls nutting and berrying.

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n.¹c1000

n.²c1275

n.³1486

n.⁴1598

v.¹a1250

v.²1865

单词	berry
释义	berryn.¹ Brit. /ˈbɛri/, U.S. /ˈbɛri/ Forms: Old English beriae, berie, beriȝe, berge, Middle English–1500s berie, Middle English–1500s bery(e, (Middle English burie), 1500s–1600s berrie, 1500s– berry. Etymology: Found, with some variety of form, in all the Germanic languages: with Old English bęrie weak feminine, compare Old Norse ber (Danish bær , Swedish bär ), Old Saxon beri (in wîn-beri ), Middle Dutch bēre , Old High German beri strong neuter, Middle High German ber and bere neuter and feminine, modern German beere feminine. These point to an Old German bazjo-m , as a byform of basjo-m , whence Gothic basi neuter (in weina-basi ‘grape’). The s type is also preserved in Middle Dutch beze , modern Dutch bes , also Middle Dutch and modern Dutch bezie feminine. The feminine forms Dutch bēzie and Old English berie answer to a Germanic extended form basjôn- , bazjôn- . The ulterior history is uncertain: bazjo- has been conjecturally referred to bazo-z bare adj., adv., and n., as if a bare or uncovered fruit, also to the root represented by Sanskrit bhas- to eat. 1. a. Any small globular, or ovate juicy fruit, not having a stone; in Old English chiefly applied to the grape; in modern popular use, embracing the gooseberry, raspberry, bilberry, and their congeners, as well as the strawberry, mulberry, fruit of the elder, rowan-tree, cornel, honey-suckle, buckthorn, privet, holly, mistletoe, ivy, yew, crowberry, barberry, bearberry, potato, nightshade, bryony, laurel, mezereon, and many exotic shrubs; also sometimes the bird-cherry or ‘hag-berry’ (which is a stone-fruit), the haw, and hip of the rose; spec. in Scotland and north of England, it means the gooseberry. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > berry berryc1000 grainc1315 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] cropa700 berryc1000 grainc1315 blobc1750 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun] > hillock barrowc885 burrowc885 berryc1000 knapc1000 knollc1000 ball1166 howa1340 toft1362 hillocka1382 tertre1480 knowec1505 hilleta1552 hummock1555 mountainettea1586 tump1589 butt1600 mountlet1610 mounture1614 colline1641 tuft1651 knock?17.. tummock1789 mound1791 tomhan1811 koppie1848 tuffet1877 c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxiii. 24 Gif tu gange binnan þines freondes wineard, et þæra bergena. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 114 Nym winberian þe beoþ acende æfter oþre berigian. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 124 Breres bereð rosen & berien. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2062 [A win-tre] blomede and siðen bar, Ðe beries ripe. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 121 Þe juse of grapes and of buries [L. mori]. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 207 His palfrey was as broun as any berye. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xvi. x. (Globe) 385 A strong black horse, blacker than a bery. a1500 Songs & Carols 15th C. 85 Ivy berith berys black. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 212 Two louely berries moulded on one stemme. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 307 For dinner savourie fruits..Berrie or Grape. View more context for this quotation 1793 R. Southey Lyric Poems II. 149 The cluster'd berries bright Amid the holly's gay green leaves. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Œnone 100 Garlanding the gnarled boughs With bunch and berry and flower. 1883 Birmingh. Weekly Post 11 Aug. 4/7 Last year the heaviest berry shown scaled 31 dwt. b. loosely. A coffee ‘bean’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > coffee manufacture > [noun] > coffee-bean coffee1626 coffee-berry1662 coffee-bean1688 berry1712 Java bean1868 Negro coffee1887 1712 A. Pope Rape of Locke i, in Misc. Poems 360 The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round. c. slang (U.S.). A dollar; also (in U.K.), a pound. Usually in plural. Hence the berries: an excellent person or thing; ‘the cat's whiskers’. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing carbunclea1350 swanc1386 phoenixc1400 diamondc1440 broocha1464 surmounterc1500 sovereign?a1513 primrose peerless1523 superlative1577 transcendent1593 Arabian birda1616 crack1637 first rate1681 peach1710 phoenicle1711 admiration1717 spanker1751 first-raterc1760 no slouch of1767 nailer1806 tip-topper1822 ripper1825 ripstaver1828 apotheosis1832 clinker1836 clipper1836 bird1839 keener1839 ripsnorter1840 beater1845 firecracker1845 pumpkin1845 screamer1846 stunner1847 bottler1855 beaut1866 bobby-dazzler1866 one out of the box1867 stem-winder1875 corker1877 trimmer1878 hot stuff1884 daisy1886 jim-dandy1887 cracker1891 jim-hickey1895 peacherino1896 pippin1897 alpha plus1898 peacherine1900 pip1900 humdinger1905 bosker1906 hummer1907 good egg1914 superstar1914 the berries1918 bee's knee1923 the cat's whiskers1923 smash1923 smash hit1923 brahma1925 dilly1935 piss-cutter1935 killer1937 killer-diller1938 a hard act to follow1942 peacheroo1942 bitch1946 brammerc1950 hot shit1960 Tiffany1973 bollocks1981 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a pound li.c1450 quid1661 strike1680 note1775 scrieve1821 nicker1871 saucepan lid1896 bar1911 berry1918 smacker1920 thick 'un1968 sob1970 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar skin1834 rock1837 buck1856 scad1856 simoleon1881 plunk1885 clam1886 slug1887 bone1889 plunker1890 ace1900 sinker1900 Oxford1902 caser1907 iron man1907 man1910 berry1918 fish1920 smacker1920 Oxford scholar1937 loonie1987 1918 H. C. Witwer From Baseball to Boches iv. ii. 147 When..I go back to baseball, I can drag down six thousand berries a year. 1920 ‘B. L. Standish’ Man on First 127 It don't take the shine off your little performance. You were there with the berries. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt vii. 103 A fellow that..pulls down fifteen thousand berries a year! 1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 300 You think you're the berries, don't you? Well, you might have been once, but you're a flat-tire these days! 1926 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXIV. 120 That's the berries, that's just right. 1934 Humorist 26 May 482/1 An attachment worth ten thousand berries in the open market. 1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 43 He had what was left of the three hundred berries Hedwig coughed up. 1943 W. Lewis Let. 9 Nov. (1963) 369 No intelligent book could get accepted by a N.Y. publisher, except perhaps a little publisher, who would give you a maximum of a thousand berries. 2. Botany. A many-seeded inferior pulpy fruit, the seeds of which are, when mature, scattered through the pulp; called also bacca. In this sense, many of the fruits popularly so called, are not berries: the grape, gooseberry and currants, the bilberry, mistletoe berry, and potato fruit, are true berries; but, botanically, the name also includes the cucumber, gourd, and even the orange and lemon. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > berry > true berry or hesperidium berry1809 hesperidium1866 1809 J. E. Smith Bot. 284 The simple many-seeded berries of the Vine, Gooseberry, &c. The Orange and Lemon are true Berries, with a thick coat. 1880 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) vii. §2. 299 The Berry..comprises all simple fruits in which the pericarp is fleshy throughout. 3. One of the eggs in the roe of a fish; also, the eggs of a lobster. A hen lobster carrying her eggs is said to be in berry or berried adj.² ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > an egg or parts of spawn1563 berry1768 eye1840 oil-drop1849 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > of or belonging to Malacostraca > of the Thoracostraca > related to or having characteristic of lobster > bearing eggs in berry1768 berried1868 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > eggs of lobster seed?1587 berry1768 1768 Mr. Travis in Penny Cycl. (1834) II. 513/2 Hen lobsters are found in berry at all times of the year. 1876 Family Herald 9 Dec. 95/1 A large specimen [of lobster] will yield from five to eight ounces of ‘berry.’ Compounds C1. General attributive. a. berry-bush n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > berry-bush berry-treea1398 berry-bush1817 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. vi. 136 Pleased wi' the freedom o' the berry-bushes. berry-pie n. berry-tree n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > berry-bush berry-treea1398 berry-bush1817 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. c. 991 Hierdes in deserte eteþ þe fruyte of þe wilde bery tree. b. berry-bearing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful > bearing or not bearing berries red-berried1640 bacciferous1656 coccigerous1657 baccated1731 berry-bearing1742 berried1796 baccate1836 berryless1887 1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. xxiv. 140 A bacciferous, or berry-bearing, Tree or Shrub. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 82 Berry-bearing thorns That feed the thrush. 1796 W. H. Marshall Planting II. 313 Frangula, or Berry-bearing Alder. 1933 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 58 400 Wilsonii with leaves as large as Marnockii, but dull green and spiny, also berry-bearing. berry-brown adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown russet1428 reddish-brown1530 sorrel1534 berry-brown1575 sored1587 russetish1600 Chelidonian1601 weaselled-coloured1607 deer-coloured1611 spadiceous1646 russeted1654 testaceous1688 russety1697 mahoganya1744 red-brown1786 reddy-brown1845 fusco-testaceous1847 mahogany-brown1881 persimmon1897 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxvi. 96 He seemed fayre, tweene blacke and berrie brounde. 1820 W. Scott Abbot II. i. 18 The Friars of Fail drank berry-brown ale. berry-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [adjective] > of or like a berry berried1824 baccate1830 berry-shaped1836 bacciform1839 berry-like1864 1864 Monthly Evening Readings May 161 Berry-like galls are formed on the peduncles. berry-shaped adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [adjective] > of or like a berry berried1824 baccate1830 berry-shaped1836 bacciform1839 berry-like1864 1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 485/2 Berry-shaped corpuscles seem to be appended. C2. berry alder n. (also berry-bearing alder) a shrub ( Rhamnus frangula) = Alder Buckthorn. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] > alder and allies aldereOE alderna1325 prick tree1551 black alder1578 aln1589 sporkenwood1599 alder1648 alder buckthorn?1742 orl1747 alder1755 arn1791 Turkey alder1822 Oregon alder1842 berry alder1863 tag alder1891 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 20 Berry-alder, a buckthorn..distinguished from them [the alders] by bearing berries. berry-button n. a berry-shaped button. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > button > types of hair-button1593 frog1635 bar-button1685 frost button1686 sleeve-button1686 berry-button1702 stud1715 pearl button1717 breast button1742 bell-button1775 shell button1789 red button1797 olivet1819 bullet-buttons1823 basket-button1836 all-over1838 top1852 olive1890 pearly1890 nail head1892 1702 London Gaz. No. 3783/4 A..Stuff Wastcoat with black and red Berry-Buttons. berry wax n. wax obtained from the wax-berry (Myrica spp.), used for making candles and polishing floors (cf. bayberry-wax in quot. 1769 at bayberry n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > waxy materials > [noun] > derived from plants > specific myrtle wax1700 piney tallow1843 Japanese wax1859 Japan wax1859 myrica wax1862 myrtle-berry wax1888 berry wax1897 candelilla wax1909 1897 H. Edmonds & R. Marloth Elem. Bot. S. Afr. xvii. 169 The genus Myrica, of which M. cordifolia and others supply the berry-wax. 1913 R. Marloth Flora S. Afr. I. 133 The layer of wax on the berries of some species [of Myrica] is so considerable that it is technically exploited. The farmers boil the berries with water, strain the hot mixture and allow the melted wax to solidify. The berry wax (myrica wax) is of a pale greenish colour and considerably harder than beeswax. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). berryn.² Etymology: < Old English beorg hill: a variant of barrow n.¹ (While the nominative gave Middle English beruh, berw, barw, barow, the dative beorge, with palatalized g, gave berȝe, beryhe, berye.)It is doubtful whether this quotation belongs to this or to berry n.³:a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Art of Love (1709) i. 8 The Theatres are Berries for the Fair: Like Ants on Mole-hills, thither they repair.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈberry. Obsolete exc. dialect. A mound, hillock, or barrow. ΚΠ c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6143 Vnder ane berhȝe [c1300 Otho borewe]. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 589 Thanne shaltow blenche at a berghe. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iii. sig. D.j Heigh derie derie, Trill on the berie. ?1562 Thersytes sig. D.i We shall make merye and synge tyrle on the berye. 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 33 Piping on thine Oaten-Reede Vpon this Little berry (some ycleepe A Hillocke). 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 195 Removing the potatoes to the caves, heaps..ricks, or berrys (for by all such terms they are known in this country). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † berryn.³ Forms: Middle English bery, 1500s beery, 1500s–1600s berrie, berry. Etymology: See burrow n.¹ Obsolete. 1. A (rabbit's) burrow. Hence, the spec. name for a company of rabbits. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > group of berry1486 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren clapperc1400 cunnigar1424 warrena1425 coneygarth1429 coney-close?1472 coney hole?c1475 berry1486 coney holda1500 coney-clapper1530 coney yard1532 coneyry1570 coney burrow1575 coney gratec1580 coney-gat1591 coney green1599 coney warren1616 coney ground1617 rabbit hole1667 stop1669 rabbit burrow1723 stock1736 rabbit warren1766 stab1838 warrener1864 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vi A Bery of Conyis. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 283^v I haue nede of a feret, to let into this beery to styrt out the conies. 1585 Mod. Curiosities Art & Nat. To make rabbets come out of their berries without a ferret. 1614 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 2) ix. vi. 862 It [sc. the penguin]..feeds on fish and grasse, and harbors in berries. 1685 N. Crouch Eng. Empire in Amer. xiii. 165 Musk-Rats who live in holes and Berries like Rabbits. 2. transferred. An excavation; a mine in besieging. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > mine(s) minea1450 undermine1524 minework1583 minery1591 mining1598 berry1608 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 139 Till one strict Berrie, till one winding Cave Becom the Fight-Field of two Armies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † berryn.⁴ Etymology: Compare birr n.¹: perhaps < berry v.¹; or, since found only in Florio and Cotgrave, an erroneous form. Obsolete. A gust or blast (of wind). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of ghosteOE blasta1000 blas?c1225 ragec1405 blorec1440 flaw1513 thud1513 flaga1522 fuddera1522 flake1555 flan1572 whid?1590 flirta1592 gust1594 berry1598 wind-catch1610 snuff1613 stress1625 flash1653 blow1655 fresh1662 scud1694 flurry1698 gush1704 flam1711 waff1727 flawer1737 Roger's Blasta1825 flaff1827 slat1840 scart1861 rodges-blast1879 huffle1889 slap1890 slammer1891 Sir Roger1893 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Biffera..a whirlewind, a gust or berry of wind. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Folata di uento..a gaile or berrie of winde. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tourbillon de vent..a gust, flaw, berrie of wind. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). berryv.¹ Forms: Also bery, bury. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymon: Norse berja. Etymology: Middle English berien, bery, < Old Norse berja to strike, beat, thresh = Old High German berjan, Middle High German berren, beren, bern; represented in Old English only by past participle gebered. Cognate with Latin ferīre to strike.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈberry. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. transitive. To beat, thrash. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > beating or repeated striking > beat [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person to-beatc893 threshOE bustc1225 to lay on or upon?c1225 berrya1250 to-bunea1250 touchc1330 arrayc1380 byfrapc1380 boxc1390 swinga1400 forbeatc1420 peal?a1425 routa1425 noddlea1450 forslinger1481 wipe1523 trima1529 baste1533 waulk1533 slip1535 peppera1550 bethwack1555 kembc1566 to beat (a person) black and blue1568 beswinge1568 paik1568 trounce1568 canvass1573 swaddle?1577 bebaste1582 besoop1589 bumfeage1589 dry-beat1589 feague1589 lamback1589 clapperclaw1590 thrash1593 belam1595 lam1595 beswaddle1598 bumfeagle1598 belabour1600 tew1600 flesh-baste1611 dust1612 feeze1612 mill1612 verberate1614 bethumpa1616 rebuke1619 bemaul1620 tabor1624 maula1627 batterfang1630 dry-baste1630 lambaste1637 thunder-thump1637 cullis1639 dry-banga1640 nuddle1640 sauce1651 feak1652 cotton1654 fustigate1656 brush1665 squab1668 raddle1677 to tan (a person's) hide1679 slam1691 bebump1694 to give (a person) his load1694 fag1699 towel1705 to kick a person's butt1741 fum1790 devel1807 bray1808 to beat (also scare, etc.) someone's daylights out1813 mug1818 to knock (a person) into the middle of next week1821 welt1823 hidea1825 slate1825 targe1825 wallop1825 pounce1827 to lay into1838 flake1841 muzzle1843 paste1846 looder1850 frail1851 snake1859 fettle1863 to do over1866 jacket1875 to knock seven kinds of —— out of (a person)1877 to take apart1880 splatter1881 to beat (knock, etc.) the tar out of1884 to —— the shit out of (a person or thing)1886 to do up1887 to —— (the) hell out of1887 to beat — bells out of a person1890 soak1892 to punch out1893 stoush1893 to work over1903 to beat up1907 to punch up1907 cream1929 shellac1930 to —— the bejesus out of (a person or thing)1931 duff1943 clobber1944 to fill in1948 to bash up1954 to —— seven shades of —— out of (a person or thing)1976 to —— seven shades out of (a person or thing)1983 beast1990 becurry- fan- a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Titus) (1963) 59 Ter ȝe schulen seo berien [?c1225 Cleo. buncin] ham wið þeose deoueles betles. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Berry, to beat; as to berry a bairn, to beat a child. 2. To thresh (corn, etc.). See berried adj.¹ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [verb (transitive)] > thresh threshOE tread1382 stampa1425 berry1483 fine1579 thrash1594 to beat out1611 flack1743 cob1796 flail1821 scutch1844 strip1861 1483 Cath. Angl. 29 Bery ..vbi to thresche. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 148 Thrashers that bury by quarter-tale. 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words Berry, to thresh, i.e. to beat out the berry or grain of the corn. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Berry, to thrash corn, Roxb., Dumfr. Categories » 3. To beat (a path, etc.). See berried adj.¹ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). berryv.² Brit. /ˈbɛri/, U.S. /ˈbɛri/ Etymology: < berry n.¹; compare apple v. 1. intransitive. To come into berry; to fill or swell. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow or vegetate [verb (intransitive)] > bear (fruit, flower, etc.) bearOE berry1865 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 402 The wheat, oats and barley..were now berrying full and plump. 1873 R. D. Blackmore Cradock Nowell (1883) xxx. 167 The late bees were buzzing around him though the linden had berried. 2. To go a berrying, i.e. gathering berries. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [verb (intransitive)] > pick berries berrya1871 a1871 Miss Sedgwick in Life & Lett. 44 I went with herds of school-girls nutting and berrying. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹c1000n.²c1275n.³1486n.⁴1598v.¹a1250v.²1865
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