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berry

noun
/ˈbɛɹi/

Etymology

From Middle English berȝe, berghe, from Old English beorġe, dative form of beorg (“mountain, hill, mound, barrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *berg, from Proto-Germanic *bergaz (“mountain, hill”). More at barrow. Cognates Cognate with Scots burrow (“mound, tumulus, barrow”), North Frisian Bārig, beerch, beeri, beerj, berag, berig, berri, bärj (“mountain”), Saterland Frisian Bierich, Bíerig, Bäirch (“mountain”), West Frisian berch (“mountain”), Cimbrian pèrge (“mountain”), Dutch berg (“mountain”), German Berg (“mountain”), German Low German Barg (“mountain”), Limburgish berg, Bärrech (“hill, mountain”), Luxembourgish Bierg (“mountain”), Mòcheno pèrg (“mountain”), Yiddish באַרג (barg, “mountain”), Danish bjerg (“mountain”), Faroese berg, bjarg (“cliff”), bjørg (“cliffs”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish berg (“mountain”); also Northern Luri برگ (berg, “mountain”), Polish brzeg (“bank, shore”), Russian бе́рег (béreg, “bank, shore”).

  1. derived from *bʰerH-✻ — “to rip, cut, split, grate”
  2. inherited from *barjaną✻ — “to beat, hit”
  3. inherited from *barjan✻
  4. inherited from *berian✻
  5. inherited from beryen

Definitions

  1. A small succulent fruit, of any one of many varieties.

  2. A soft fruit which develops from a single ovary and contains seeds not encased in pits.

  3. A coffee bean.

  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. One of the ova or eggs of a fish or crustacean.

      • The crabs carry their berries for six months.
      • That is the only restriction existing: not even small fish or fish in berry, and there are no restrictions on soft-shelled fish.
      • These crawfish are speared by the Kafirs, who bring them in to the village for sale, and who catch anything and everything either female fish in berry, or male fish in soft shell.

    2. A police car.

      • Today was like one of those fly dreams / Didn't even see a berry flashin' those high beams

    3. A dollar.

      • Four rounds and Enright still on his feet and a hundred and fifty thousand berries gone if he stays two more!

    4. To pick berries.

      • On summer days Grandma used to take us berrying, whether we wanted to go or not.

    5. To bear or produce berries.

    6. A mound

      A mound; a barrow.

    7. A burrow, especially a rabbit's burrow.

    8. An excavation

      An excavation; a military mine.

    9. To beat

      To beat; give a beating to; thrash.

    10. To thresh (grain).

    11. A surname from Middle English.

    12. A male given name transferred from the surname.

      • Beresford Conway. All my pals call me Berry.
      • Since my father's name was Berry Gordy, he named me Berry Gordy. There's no middle name.

    13. A place name

      A place name:

    14. A female given name from English.

      • "I'm Beryl Shaddock. Call me Berry," the girl said.
      • "What's with your dad calling you 'Berry' anyway? What kind of name is 'Berry'?" "Oh, it's short for Huckleberry," she replied, as if that explained everything.

    15. A former province in Centre-Val de Loire region, France.

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Derived

acai berry, appleberry, apple-berry, Avignon berry, balloon berry, baneberry, barberry, bayberry, beachberry, bearberry, beautyberry, berryade, berry alder, berry-bearing alder, berry blue, Berry Brow, berry-button, berry catchfly, berry-cone, berryeater, Berry Hill, berryish, Berry Jerry, berryless, berrylike, Berry Park, berrypecker, berry sugar, berrytini, berry wax, bilberry, billberry, blackberry, blaeberry, bloodberry, blueberry, bogberry, boxberry, boysenberry, bramberry · +243 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for berry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA