blackberryn.

Brit.

/ˈblakb(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈblækˌbɛri/

Forms: see black adj. and n. and berry n.¹

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

Etymology: < black adj. + berry n.¹ Compare Old High German suarzbere bilberry, (probably also) fruit of the bramble (German (now regional) Schwarzbeere bilberry, also fruit of the bramble).In Old English the first element is treated as a normal adjective inflected for case and number. Also attested early as an element in place names, as Blakeberilond (field name), Alderton, Gloucestershire (12th cent.), Blakberegreves (field name), Elton, Cheshire (1466); compare also (perhaps in sense ‘bilberry’) Blakberygyll (river name), Cumberland (a1327; now Bleaberry Gill (compare blaeberry n.)).

a. The edible berry-like fruit of the bramble, Rubus fruticosus, and its cultivated varieties (see sense 1b), which is an aggregate fruit consisting of a cluster of soft, sweet, purple-black drupelets. Later also: the similar berries of any of various other species of Rubus.Blackberries have been used to make wine and to flavour drinks; they are also eaten fresh, and cooked to make sauces, desserts, and preserves.In early attestations in glossaries, it is not entirely certain whether the fruit or the plant (cf. sense 1b) is intended; cf. quots. OE², a1300.The meaning of the Latin lemma flavi in quot. OE² is uncertain (apparently lit. ‘yellow ones’); the second lemma, mori (plural), could refer to either the bramble or the mulberry (cf. sense 2), but comparison with the probable source (Isidore Origines 17. 8. 19) suggests that the bramble is intended.In quot. ?c1425 implying something so common as to be of little worth (cf. as plentiful (also common) as blackberries at Phrases).

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

blackberryOE

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > blackberry

blackberryOE

brambleberryc1000

bramberry1599

brier-berry1626

ramble-berry1658

bumble-kite1685

bumbleberry1728

mooch1839

OE Lacnunga (2001) I. cxxxiii. 96 Þær wexeð blaco bergean eal swa micele swa oðre pysbeana.

OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 129 Flaui uel mori, blace berian.

a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/l. 18 Murum, i. blakeberie.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1809 (MED) Blake-beries þat on breres growen.

?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 169 He settethe not therby a blakberie.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 132^v Bramble busshes bearynge blacke berries or wylde raspes.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 217 Bramble-berries, or Black-berries..are..nourishing to a weak stomach.

1691 W. Yworth New Art of making Wines iii. 36 For Perry, make use of the Herb Clare, Quintescence of Wine, and to every Barrel 6 pound of the Syrup of Blackberries.

1713 J. Gay Pastorals vi Blackberries they pluck'd in deserts wild.

1787 J. Wesley Let. 25 Sept. (1931) VIII. 11 When I had only blackberries to eat in Cornwall, still God gave me strength sufficient for my work.

1826 Times 19 Sept. 3/5 They had in their possession two baskets and a handkerchief, which..they said contained blackberries.

1852 Gardeners' Chron. 3 A real novelty..in the form of what is called a White Blackberry.

1945 J. Betjeman Trains & Buttered Toast (2006) 192 It is a valley of luxuriant growths, huge blackberries, ropes of birdwood, thick woods of fir and larch.

2002 Church Times 18 Jan. 28/3 We picked blackberries or bluebells in season and took the nightingales for granted when we were 12.

b. The trailing plant Rubus fruticosus (family Rosaceae), found throughout north temperate regions and in South America, which has prickly woody stems (canes), pinnate leaves, and white flowers; (also) any of the numerous cultivars of this plant. Later also (chiefly with distinguishing word): any of several other species of Rubus that produce fruit similar to that of R. fruticosus. Cf. bramble n.¹ R. fruticosus is an aggregate species, comprising several closely related plants not distinguished from one another taxonomically.low-bush, swamp, thimble blackberry: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > bramble or blackberry bush

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > blackberry bush

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?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. U.iiii^v Stampe red myntes, Rue, blacke bery or bramble leaues, and morell together wyth the rotes of lilly.

1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 87 Bramble breer, or Blackberry.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 119 Spinous or thorny shrubs..Bramble, Blackberry, Rose.

1730 J. Andree tr. G. H. Behrens Nat. Hist. Hartz-Forest vi. ii. 103 'Tis a high, large, and on the outside unfruitful Mountain, it bearing no Firr-trees..and but only blackberries and some few Shrubs.

1848 M. Somerville Physical Geogr. II. xxiv. 101 Of the seven species of bramble which grow at the Cape, one is the common English bramble or blackberry.

1871 Arthur's Home Mag. Jan. 62/1 Blackberries grow in almost any kind of soil, but require high feeding and close cultivation to attain to perfection.

1960 Times 13 Aug. 9/2 The Himalayan Giant blackberry..throws up new growth with astonishing vigour.

2006 B. L. Markham Mini Farming for Self Sufficiency xiii. 93 Cane fruits, like raspberries and blackberries, grow long and heavy enough that the tips of the canes touch the ground.

2. Any of various other dark-coloured edible berries; a plant that bears such berries; esp. (a) (Scottish and English regional (northern)) the blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum, and the bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus; (b) (North American) the crowberry, Empetrum nigrum.In quots. lOE, a1500 probably in sense ‘bilberry’; compare classical Latin vaccīnium vaccinium n.

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

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myrtle berry?a1500

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ohelo1825

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > bilberry or myrtleberry

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frawn1726

the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > sloe

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > sloe

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

blackcurrant1629

blackberry1852

lOE Durham Plant Gloss. 9 Bacinia, blacebergan.

a1500 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 258 [Vaccinium], blakeberyes.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest ii. f. 34 The Blackberie tree, is after his sort bushy, bearing that fruite that eftsoones refresheth the shepheirde.

1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1231 We in England [call them] Whortes, Whortle berries, Blacke Berries, Bill Berries.

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Black-berries..the Berries of the Black-thorn.

1751 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 52/1 The plants of Skiddow are the myrtle berries, generally called blackberries.

1852 Gardeners' Chron. 54 In speaking of blackberries about Kelso, black currants are understood.

1885 Scot. Border Rec. 6 June The red currant and blackberries have suffered somewhat.

1904 Science 8 Jan. 72/2 Empetrum nigrum, with black fruits that are called ‘blackberries’ and are eaten by the natives.

1991 H. V. Kuhnlein & N. J. Turner Trad. Plant Foods Canad. Indigenous Peoples iv. 253 Sometimes the berries are stored temporarily until the ‘blackberries’ (crowberries, Empetrum nigrum) ripen in mid-September.

1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 141 Sometimes they [sc. whortleberries] were called huckleberries, blackberries or blueberries, but they turn up on the wild moors of Wuthering Heights as bilberries.

3. Usually in form BlackBerry. A proprietary name for: a type of pager or smartphone capable of sending and receiving email messages.

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1999 Daily News (N.Y.) 19 Jan. 20/2 Canadian tech company Research In Motion hopes to send an alert to the industry with a snazzy new pager called the BlackBerry... It allows users to send and receive E-mail, text messages and faxes, and send voice-mail.

2000 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. b9/1 [She] sent the vice president a message at 1:20 a.m. Central time on his Blackberry.

2004 Daily Tel. 8 Dec. 6/1 If you thought that mobile telephones had made it impossible to hide from the boss,..just wait until you have tried a BlackBerry.

2009 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 81/1 I put my BlackBerry in my cargo pocket, not trusting it to the mild chaos of the cloak stand.

Phrases

as plentiful (also common) as blackberries: very common. Now rare.

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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 243 If reasons were as plentifull as blackberries, I would giue no man a reason vppon compulsion.

1872 Westm. Rev. Oct. 265/2 Such poets are as common as blackberries.

1880 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 512 He sees no objection to noble lords becoming as plentiful as blackberries, or as German counts and barons.

1898 J. Arch Story of Life x. 254 The ‘Thank yous’ we got for our pains were not as plentiful as blackberries.

1913 Good Housek. Mag. Oct. 482/1 Sore throats were formerly as common as blackberries and shortlived as mushrooms.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as blackberry jam, blackberry juice, blackberry vine, blackberry wine, etc.

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?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 56 (MED) Take a pound..of þe blakbery crop.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 1015 A Bramble, the blacke bery tree.

1641 Vicary's English-mans Treasvre (new ed.) xi. 195 Take a pottle of faire water, and put therein a..handfull of Blackberry leaves.

1745 Dublin Jrnl. 23 Apr. 1/3 For the best Blackberry Wine, 10 Gallons, produced as aforesaid,—£5.

1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades 94 Express the blackberry juice, when full ripe.

1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 124 Life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs.

1864 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. There it is; pumpkin pie, blackberry pie, whortleberry pie, huckleberry pie—pie of all kinds.

1894 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Oct. 787/1 Every now and then lumps of blackberry jam were being smeared over my clothes and face.

1915 R. C. Thompson Pilgrim's Scrip 71 The road from the bridge is like an English lane with blackberry hedgerows.

1945 L. Lenski Strawberry Girl xiv. 173 I made some blackberry jell and I was fixin' to give you some.

2008 Church Times 4 July 48/3 We were discussing the habitats of nightingales, how they loved blackberry thickets.

C2.

blackberry bush n.

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1560 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 2nd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont 150 Take the rotes of bramble or blackbery bush.

1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 233 Could they have shewn me Thistles, Nettles, or some Blackberry-Bushes and Brambles that brought forth Roses, this would have been something rare indeed.

1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry iii. xxi. 125/2 Brambles, or Blackberry Bushes, are so far of the Nature of the Furze, that they will grow upon a very poor Soil.

1872 Dark Blue Oct. 159 Within a few yards of my house there is one blackberry bush for which I have the strongest admiration.

1994 P. D. James Original Sin xxxviii. 245 On the left was a wide ditch bordered by a tangle of blackberry bushes heavy with berries.

BlackBerry thumb n. colloquial tendinitis of the thumb, a form of repetitive strain injury sometimes linked to excessive use of a miniature keyboard such as that on a mobile phone; cf. sense 3.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of ligaments > [noun]

syndesmitis1848

ganglion cyst1876

teno-synovitis1890

tendo-synovitis1899

tendinitis1900

BlackBerry thumb2002

2002 USA Today 30 Jan. b5/1 Some everyday professionals are developing thumb tendinitis—a.k.a. ‘BlackBerry thumb’—forcing them to give up thumb typing and any other thumb-related activities.

2009 T. D. Zweifel et al. Rabbi & CEO iv. 82 [They]..would rather tap away obsessively and risk the ‘CrackBerry’ or ‘BlackBerry Thumb,’..than to ban their beloved mobile toys.

2011 Daily Tel. 25 Mar. 3/1 The firm is increasing its staff numbers to cope with what it believes will be a sharp rise in ‘Blackberry thumb’ claims.

blackberry summer n. English regional a warm period in late September and early October, when blackberries ripen.

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1839 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms (new ed.) Blackberry-summer, the fine weather which is generally experienced at the latter end of September and beginning of October, when the blackberries ripen.

1903 Pall Mall Mag. Aug. 441 Blackberry-Summer, 1546. I betook myself..to my old patrons the London Blackfriars.

2009 P. L. Williams Elegies for Water 1 I do not know where they have been All this time, these hot blackberry summers.

blackberry winter n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) a period of cold weather in the late spring; a cold snap; cf. blackthorn winter n. at blackthorn n. Compounds 2.So called because a spring cold snap often occurs during the period when blackberry bushes are in bloom.

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1883 Semi-Weekly Interior Jrnl. (Stanford, Kentucky) 8 May 3/1 We've had another cool snap which is perhaps what is known as blackberry winter.

1888 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 14 May 1/1 This section is now enjoying ‘blackberry winter’, an annual visitation of cool weather during the season when the blackberry first comes in bloom.

1909 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 11 May 2/4 The cool wave is expected to inaugurate the blackberry winter and carry frosts further south than is usual for the season.

2001 J. Lindskold Through Wolf's Eyes (2002) 8 The mountains do get snow, even this late in the season, but I hope we're not in for any. A blackberry winter's all we need.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blackberry
释义	blackberryn. Brit. /ˈblakb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈblækˌbɛri/ Forms: see black adj. and n. and berry n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: black adj., berry n.¹ Etymology: < black adj. + berry n.¹ Compare Old High German suarzbere bilberry, (probably also) fruit of the bramble (German (now regional) Schwarzbeere bilberry, also fruit of the bramble).In Old English the first element is treated as a normal adjective inflected for case and number. Also attested early as an element in place names, as Blakeberilond (field name), Alderton, Gloucestershire (12th cent.), Blakberegreves (field name), Elton, Cheshire (1466); compare also (perhaps in sense ‘bilberry’) Blakberygyll (river name), Cumberland (a1327; now Bleaberry Gill (compare blaeberry n.)). 1. a. The edible berry-like fruit of the bramble, Rubus fruticosus, and its cultivated varieties (see sense 1b), which is an aggregate fruit consisting of a cluster of soft, sweet, purple-black drupelets. Later also: the similar berries of any of various other species of Rubus.Blackberries have been used to make wine and to flavour drinks; they are also eaten fresh, and cooked to make sauces, desserts, and preserves.In early attestations in glossaries, it is not entirely certain whether the fruit or the plant (cf. sense 1b) is intended; cf. quots. OE², a1300.The meaning of the Latin lemma flavi in quot. OE² is uncertain (apparently lit. ‘yellow ones’); the second lemma, mori (plural), could refer to either the bramble or the mulberry (cf. sense 2), but comparison with the probable source (Isidore Origines 17. 8. 19) suggests that the bramble is intended.In quot. ?c1425 implying something so common as to be of little worth (cf. as plentiful (also common) as blackberries at Phrases). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > blackberry blackberryOE brambleberryc1000 bramberry1599 brier-berry1626 ramble-berry1658 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > blackberry blackberryOE brambleberryc1000 bramberry1599 brier-berry1626 ramble-berry1658 bumble-kite1685 bumbleberry1728 mooch1839 OE Lacnunga (2001) I. cxxxiii. 96 Þær wexeð blaco bergean eal swa micele swa oðre pysbeana. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 129 Flaui uel mori, blace berian. a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/l. 18 Murum, i. blakeberie. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1809 (MED) Blake-beries þat on breres growen. ?c1425 (c1412) T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum (Royal 17 D.vi) (1860) 169 He settethe not therby a blakberie. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 132^v Bramble busshes bearynge blacke berries or wylde raspes. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xxiii. 217 Bramble-berries, or Black-berries..are..nourishing to a weak stomach. 1691 W. Yworth New Art of making Wines iii. 36 For Perry, make use of the Herb Clare, Quintescence of Wine, and to every Barrel 6 pound of the Syrup of Blackberries. 1713 J. Gay Pastorals vi Blackberries they pluck'd in deserts wild. 1787 J. Wesley Let. 25 Sept. (1931) VIII. 11 When I had only blackberries to eat in Cornwall, still God gave me strength sufficient for my work. 1826 Times 19 Sept. 3/5 They had in their possession two baskets and a handkerchief, which..they said contained blackberries. 1852 Gardeners' Chron. 3 A real novelty..in the form of what is called a White Blackberry. 1945 J. Betjeman Trains & Buttered Toast (2006) 192 It is a valley of luxuriant growths, huge blackberries, ropes of birdwood, thick woods of fir and larch. 2002 Church Times 18 Jan. 28/3 We picked blackberries or bluebells in season and took the nightingales for granted when we were 12. b. The trailing plant Rubus fruticosus (family Rosaceae), found throughout north temperate regions and in South America, which has prickly woody stems (canes), pinnate leaves, and white flowers; (also) any of the numerous cultivars of this plant. Later also (chiefly with distinguishing word): any of several other species of Rubus that produce fruit similar to that of R. fruticosus. Cf. bramble n.¹ R. fruticosus is an aggregate species, comprising several closely related plants not distinguished from one another taxonomically.low-bush, swamp, thimble blackberry: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorny berry-bush > [noun] > bramble or blackberry bush bramblec1000 bramble-brierc1000 bremberOE brierc1000 hound's thornc1420 bramec1425 blackberry?1550 bramble-bush1579 stone bramble1744 raunce1840 bush-lawyer1853 lawyer1857 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > blackberry bush bramblec1000 bramble-brierc1000 bremberOE bramec1425 blackberry?1550 bramble-bush1579 raunce1840 ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. U.iiii^v Stampe red myntes, Rue, blacke bery or bramble leaues, and morell together wyth the rotes of lilly. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 87 Bramble breer, or Blackberry. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 119 Spinous or thorny shrubs..Bramble, Blackberry, Rose. 1730 J. Andree tr. G. H. Behrens Nat. Hist. Hartz-Forest vi. ii. 103 'Tis a high, large, and on the outside unfruitful Mountain, it bearing no Firr-trees..and but only blackberries and some few Shrubs. 1848 M. Somerville Physical Geogr. II. xxiv. 101 Of the seven species of bramble which grow at the Cape, one is the common English bramble or blackberry. 1871 Arthur's Home Mag. Jan. 62/1 Blackberries grow in almost any kind of soil, but require high feeding and close cultivation to attain to perfection. 1960 Times 13 Aug. 9/2 The Himalayan Giant blackberry..throws up new growth with astonishing vigour. 2006 B. L. Markham Mini Farming for Self Sufficiency xiii. 93 Cane fruits, like raspberries and blackberries, grow long and heavy enough that the tips of the canes touch the ground. 2. Any of various other dark-coloured edible berries; a plant that bears such berries; esp. (a) (Scottish and English regional (northern)) the blackcurrant, Ribes nigrum, and the bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus; (b) (North American) the crowberry, Empetrum nigrum.In quots. lOE, a1500 probably in sense ‘bilberry’; compare classical Latin vaccīnium vaccinium n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > bilberry or myrtleberry blackberrylOE myrtlea1400 hurtleberryc1460 myrtle berry?a1500 hurt1542 blaeberry1562 whortleberry1578 bilberry1584 blue1587 hurtle1597 hurtberrya1661 frawn1726 ohelo1825 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > bilberry or myrtleberry blackberrylOE wineberry14.. whimberryc1460 myrtle berry?a1500 blaeberry1562 whort1578 whortleberry1578 bilberry1584 vaccinium1597 whortle1597 frawn1726 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > plum > sloe sloec725 blackberry1567 egg-peg1878 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > plum > sloe sloec725 blackberry1567 cat-sloe1578 snag1578 hedge-peak1630 bull-plum1770 hedge-speak1847 winterpick1859 egg-peg1878 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > currant > black currant blackcurrant1629 blackberry1852 lOE Durham Plant Gloss. 9 Bacinia, blacebergan. a1500 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 258 [Vaccinium], blakeberyes. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest ii. f. 34 The Blackberie tree, is after his sort bushy, bearing that fruite that eftsoones refresheth the shepheirde. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1231 We in England [call them] Whortes, Whortle berries, Blacke Berries, Bill Berries. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Black-berries..the Berries of the Black-thorn. 1751 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 52/1 The plants of Skiddow are the myrtle berries, generally called blackberries. 1852 Gardeners' Chron. 54 In speaking of blackberries about Kelso, black currants are understood. 1885 Scot. Border Rec. 6 June The red currant and blackberries have suffered somewhat. 1904 Science 8 Jan. 72/2 Empetrum nigrum, with black fruits that are called ‘blackberries’ and are eaten by the natives. 1991 H. V. Kuhnlein & N. J. Turner Trad. Plant Foods Canad. Indigenous Peoples iv. 253 Sometimes the berries are stored temporarily until the ‘blackberries’ (crowberries, Empetrum nigrum) ripen in mid-September. 1998 D. Pool What Jane Austen ate & Charles Dickens Knew (new ed.) 141 Sometimes they [sc. whortleberries] were called huckleberries, blackberries or blueberries, but they turn up on the wild moors of Wuthering Heights as bilberries. 3. Usually in form BlackBerry. A proprietary name for: a type of pager or smartphone capable of sending and receiving email messages. ΚΠ 1999 Daily News (N.Y.) 19 Jan. 20/2 Canadian tech company Research In Motion hopes to send an alert to the industry with a snazzy new pager called the BlackBerry... It allows users to send and receive E-mail, text messages and faxes, and send voice-mail. 2000 N.Y. Times 9 Nov. b9/1 [She] sent the vice president a message at 1:20 a.m. Central time on his Blackberry. 2004 Daily Tel. 8 Dec. 6/1 If you thought that mobile telephones had made it impossible to hide from the boss,..just wait until you have tried a BlackBerry. 2009 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 81/1 I put my BlackBerry in my cargo pocket, not trusting it to the mild chaos of the cloak stand. Phrases as plentiful (also common) as blackberries: very common. Now rare. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 243 If reasons were as plentifull as blackberries, I would giue no man a reason vppon compulsion. View more context for this quotation 1872 Westm. Rev. Oct. 265/2 Such poets are as common as blackberries. 1880 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 512 He sees no objection to noble lords becoming as plentiful as blackberries, or as German counts and barons. 1898 J. Arch Story of Life x. 254 The ‘Thank yous’ we got for our pains were not as plentiful as blackberries. 1913 Good Housek. Mag. Oct. 482/1 Sore throats were formerly as common as blackberries and shortlived as mushrooms. Compounds C1. General attributive, as blackberry jam, blackberry juice, blackberry vine, blackberry wine, etc. ΚΠ ?a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 56 (MED) Take a pound..of þe blakbery crop. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 1015 A Bramble, the blacke bery tree. 1641 Vicary's English-mans Treasvre (new ed.) xi. 195 Take a pottle of faire water, and put therein a..handfull of Blackberry leaves. 1745 Dublin Jrnl. 23 Apr. 1/3 For the best Blackberry Wine, 10 Gallons, produced as aforesaid,—£5. 1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades 94 Express the blackberry juice, when full ripe. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 124 Life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs. 1864 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. There it is; pumpkin pie, blackberry pie, whortleberry pie, huckleberry pie—pie of all kinds. 1894 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Oct. 787/1 Every now and then lumps of blackberry jam were being smeared over my clothes and face. 1915 R. C. Thompson Pilgrim's Scrip 71 The road from the bridge is like an English lane with blackberry hedgerows. 1945 L. Lenski Strawberry Girl xiv. 173 I made some blackberry jell and I was fixin' to give you some. 2008 Church Times 4 July 48/3 We were discussing the habitats of nightingales, how they loved blackberry thickets. C2. a. blackberry bush n. ΚΠ 1560 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 2nd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont 150 Take the rotes of bramble or blackbery bush. 1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 233 Could they have shewn me Thistles, Nettles, or some Blackberry-Bushes and Brambles that brought forth Roses, this would have been something rare indeed. 1756 T. Hale et al. Compl. Body Husbandry iii. xxi. 125/2 Brambles, or Blackberry Bushes, are so far of the Nature of the Furze, that they will grow upon a very poor Soil. 1872 Dark Blue Oct. 159 Within a few yards of my house there is one blackberry bush for which I have the strongest admiration. 1994 P. D. James Original Sin xxxviii. 245 On the left was a wide ditch bordered by a tangle of blackberry bushes heavy with berries. b. BlackBerry thumb n. colloquial tendinitis of the thumb, a form of repetitive strain injury sometimes linked to excessive use of a miniature keyboard such as that on a mobile phone; cf. sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of ligaments > [noun] syndesmitis1848 ganglion cyst1876 teno-synovitis1890 tendo-synovitis1899 tendinitis1900 BlackBerry thumb2002 2002 USA Today 30 Jan. b5/1 Some everyday professionals are developing thumb tendinitis—a.k.a. ‘BlackBerry thumb’—forcing them to give up thumb typing and any other thumb-related activities. 2009 T. D. Zweifel et al. Rabbi & CEO iv. 82 [They]..would rather tap away obsessively and risk the ‘CrackBerry’ or ‘BlackBerry Thumb,’..than to ban their beloved mobile toys. 2011 Daily Tel. 25 Mar. 3/1 The firm is increasing its staff numbers to cope with what it believes will be a sharp rise in ‘Blackberry thumb’ claims. blackberry summer n. English regional a warm period in late September and early October, when blackberries ripen. ΚΠ 1839 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms (new ed.) Blackberry-summer, the fine weather which is generally experienced at the latter end of September and beginning of October, when the blackberries ripen. 1903 Pall Mall Mag. Aug. 441 Blackberry-Summer, 1546. I betook myself..to my old patrons the London Blackfriars. 2009 P. L. Williams Elegies for Water 1 I do not know where they have been All this time, these hot blackberry summers. blackberry winter n. U.S. regional (chiefly southern and south Midland) a period of cold weather in the late spring; a cold snap; cf. blackthorn winter n. at blackthorn n. Compounds 2.So called because a spring cold snap often occurs during the period when blackberry bushes are in bloom. ΚΠ 1883 Semi-Weekly Interior Jrnl. (Stanford, Kentucky) 8 May 3/1 We've had another cool snap which is perhaps what is known as blackberry winter. 1888 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 14 May 1/1 This section is now enjoying ‘blackberry winter’, an annual visitation of cool weather during the season when the blackberry first comes in bloom. 1909 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 11 May 2/4 The cool wave is expected to inaugurate the blackberry winter and carry frosts further south than is usual for the season. 2001 J. Lindskold Through Wolf's Eyes (2002) 8 The mountains do get snow, even this late in the season, but I hope we're not in for any. A blackberry winter's all we need. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blackberryv. Brit. /ˈblakb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈblækˌbɛri/ Forms: 1800s– blackberry; also (in sense 2) 2000s– Blackberry, 2000s– BlackBerry. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: blackberry n. Etymology: < blackberry n. With sense 1 compare earlier blackberrying n. In sense 2 after BlackBerry, a proprietary name for a brand of pager or smartphone (see blackberry n. 3). 1. intransitive. To gather blackberries. ΚΠ 1877 L. Dande Blue Blood xx. 417 They had all been blackberrying and were picking over the berries. 1898 E. von Arnim Elizabeth & her German Garden 54 The babies go out in the afternoon and blackberry in the hedges. 1918 Times 3 Sept. 3/6 Some boys who were blackberrying near Newmarket yesterday found a dead body. 1994 H. F. Mosher Northern Borders (2002) viii. 201 My grandmother was blackberrying in the cut-over woods upriver in Idaho. 2007 J. O'Connor Redempt. Falls liv. 314 Beate had illustrated it in a most memorable fashion as we blackberried on my seventeenth birthday. 2. Originally North American. a. intransitive. To use a BlackBerry pager or smartphone, esp. in order to send messages. ΚΠ 2000 Washington Post 13 July e9/1 [She] was chastised by her husband recently as she ‘BlackBerried’ on the sidelines of their child's soccer game. 2007 E. McGregor & C. Boorman Long Way Down (2009) 75 If I'm pulling wheelies, you're blackberrying, on the phone all the time using your knee to steer. b. transitive. To send (a person) a message or messages using a BlackBerry pager or smartphone; to send (a message) in this way. ΚΠ 2002 National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing (Canada) 30 Oct. fp11/2 Goodman's Steve Halperin and McCarthys' Gary Gervan, standing no more than two feet apart, were busy blackberrying one another. 2005 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 13 Feb. 111 [He] came under fire last week after accidentally ‘BlackBerrying’ an email containing four-letter insults to a BBC reporter. 2007 N.Y. Mag. 22 Jan. 96/2 (advt.) These round-the-clock butlers carry wireless handheld devices so you can BlackBerry, text message, or e-mail them anytime—about anything. 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