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raspberry

USRAZ-bair-ee/ˈɹæzˌbɛɹi/UKRAHZ-buh-ree/ˈɹɑːzb(ə)ɹi/

Pluralraspberries

Adjectiveraspberrier, raspberriest

9 meanings of raspberry

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  1. 1
    fruitnouncountable
    A soft, sweet red fruit made of many tiny juicy bumps joined together.

    Like a tiny cluster of juicy red beads stuck together around a hollow middle.

    She picked a ripe raspberry and popped it straight into her mouth.

    We stirred fresh raspberries into the yogurt for breakfast.

  2. 2
    flavoradjective
    Tasting of raspberries, or made with them.

    She ordered a raspberry milkshake with extra syrup on top.

    The filling was sweet and unmistakably raspberry.

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  3. 3
    nouncountable
    A prickly bush that raspberries grow on, or a similar wild bush of the same plant family.

    We planted a young raspberry beside the shed last spring.

    We planted raspberries along the fence, and now the canes are taller than me.

  4. 4
    a rude noisenouncolloquialcountable
    A rude sound like a fart, made by sticking out your tongue and blowing air through your lips.

    Like the silly noise a balloon makes when you let the air squeak out slowly.

    The toddler blew a raspberry every time he didn't want to eat his peas.

    She gave the referee a loud raspberry from the back row.

    UsagePeople blow a raspberry or give someone a raspberry.

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  5. 5
    red-coloredadjective
    Having a deep pink-red color, like a ripe raspberry.

    She wore a raspberry dress to the spring wedding.

    We bought a raspberry sofa for the living room.

  6. 6
    shade of rednouncountable or uncountable
    A deep pink-red color, the color of a ripe raspberry.

    She painted the accent wall a warm raspberry.

    Raspberry was the most popular shade in the new paint collection.

Less common meanings

  1. 7
    verbcolloquialintransitive
    To make a rude sound like a fart by blowing air through your lips.

    He likes to raspberry on the baby's tummy to make her giggle.

    She raspberried loudly the moment he suggested the boring game.

    UsageOften raspberry at someone.

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  2. 8
    go pickingverbintransitive
    To go out and pick raspberries from bushes.
    "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
    1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
    My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
    1976, Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward

    UsageUsually go raspberrying.

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  3. 9
    nouncolloquial
    A rude, offensive word for a person with a physical disability.

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Origins

Meanings 1–3, 5–6, 8

From an earlier form 'raspis berry'. Its origin is not certain.

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Meanings 4, 7

From Cockney rhyming slang, where 'raspberry tart' rhymes with 'fart'.

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  • The noise sense of 'raspberry' comes from Cockney rhyming slang 'raspberry tart', which rhymes with 'fart'. en.wiktionary.org