raspberry
pronunciation
How to pronounce raspberry in British English:
UK [ˈrɑ:zbəri]
How to pronounce raspberry in American English:
US [ˈræzberi]
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- Noun:
- woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries
- red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
Word Origin
- raspberry
- raspberry: [17] The origins of the word raspberry are a mystery. At first, the fruit was known simply as raspes or raspis (recorded in an Anglo-Latin text as early as the 13th century), and the -berry was not tacked on until the early 17th century – but no one knows where raspes came from. Its use for a ‘rude noise made by blowing’, first recorded in the 1890s, comes from rhyming slang raspberry tart ‘fart’.
- raspberry (n.)
- 1620s, earlier raspis berry (1540s), possibly from raspise "a sweet rose-colored wine" (mid-15c.), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, origin uncertain, as is the connection between this and Old French raspe, Medieval Latin raspecia, raspeium, also meaning "raspberry." One suggestion is via Old Walloon raspoie "thicket," of Germanic origin. Klein suggests it is via the French word, from a Germanic source akin to English rasp (v.), with an original sense of "rough berry," based on appearance. A native plant of Europe and Asiatic Russia, the name was applied to a similar vine in North America. Meaning "rude sound" (1890) is shortening of raspberry tart, rhyming slang for fart.
Example
- 1. Another world : a clutch of butterfly eggs sits on a raspberry plant
- 2. Blackberry and raspberry were very piano .
- 3. In the first of a weekly series on healthy , inexpensive ingredients we praise the frozen raspberry
- 4. When I was nine , I used to huddle in the back of the library with my friend leanne and we 'd turn the 1991 edition of the " guinness book " pages with purple hands sticky from raspberry laffy taffy .
- 5. Cctv footage shows the group drinking bottles of beer on the dancefloor , singing football songs and downing those jammy donut shots , a grisly thing made with baileys , raspberry liqueur and sugar syrup .