raspberry

Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.

Adjective

  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! - 1941 April 10, Elsie,...
    • Raspberry Flavor JELL-O® BRAND Gelatin now tastes even raspberrier. - 1979 June, Jell-O, “Now there’s even more magic in a Jell-O® Gelatin Rainbow Cake”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 57, number 6, Des Moines,...
    • Pluck the easiest, tastiest, raspberriest raspberry around. - 1999 June/July, “Contents”, in Garden Design, volume 18, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Meigher Communications, →ISSN, page 9:
  2. Of a dark pinkish red.
    • She wore a raspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store - 1985, Prince, “Raspberry Beret”, in Around the World in a Day, performed by Prince and the Revolution:

Origin

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.

Forms

raspberrier raspberriest

Noun Entry 2

  1. The plant Rubus idaeus.
  2. Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
  3. The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
  4. A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.

Forms

raspberries

Synonyms

hindberry raspis

Hypernyms

berry fruit

Derived

arctic raspberry blackcap raspberry black raspberry blue raspberry raspberrita raspberryade raspberry beetle raspberry crown borer raspberryish raspberry jam tree raspberry ketone raspberrylike raspberry ripple raspberry ripples raspberry root rot raspberry rose raspberry tart raspberrytini raspberry tongue Raspberry Ukraine raspberry vinegar red raspberry roseleaf raspberry strasberry

Noun colloquial

  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...

    Synonyms: Bronx cheer razz

  2. A physically disabled person.

Origin

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.

Forms

raspberries

Derived

blow a raspberry

Verb Entry 4

  1. 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; […] - 1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company,...
    • "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, chapter 37, in Anne's House of Dreams:
    • […] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying. - 1944, Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old...

Forms

raspberries raspberrying raspberried

Related

boysenberry loganberry salmonberry tayberry thimbleberry whitebark raspberry

Verb colloquial

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

Forms

raspberries raspberrying raspberried