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The plant Rubus idaeus.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    The plant Rubus idaeus.

  2. 2

    Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.

  3. 3

    The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.

  4. 4

    A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.

Etimologia

From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.

aggettivo

  1. 1

    Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.

    It’s a gorgeous ice cream dream…a generous roll of vanilla shaped like a log…sprinkled with toasted pecan nuts…and filled with an egg-shaped center of the raspberriest raspberry ice cream ever!

    Raspberry Flavor JELL-O® BRAND Gelatin now tastes even raspberrier.

    Pluck the easiest, tastiest, raspberriest raspberry around.

    Apparently, yellow raspberries are no more difficult to grow than red or black, but are deemed a specialty item because only a handful of growers are producing them. […] I have heard, however, that they are sweeter and a little less raspberrier than the red ones, so maybe I might like them.

  2. 2

    Of a dark pinkish red.

    She wore a raspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store

verbo

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    To gather or forage for raspberries.

    […] she stuck burrs in my bed and lead me through the nettle-patch when we were raspberrying, because she knew I did n't know nettles; […]

    "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."

    […] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.

    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.

sostantivo

  1. 1

    A noise intended to imitate a fart, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.

    Of the announcement, Osborne said: "They have spent a hundred billion pounds of public money and they've got a massive raspberry from everyone as far as I can see. As a PR exercise, it's been an object lesson in how not to make a government announcement."

  2. 2

    A physically disabled person.

Etimologia

Cockney rhyming slang, from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it). Compare raspberry ripple = cripple.

verbo

  1. 1

    To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.

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