berry

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to pick or gather berries

   We went berrying in the summer.

2. 2
   noun

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

   The crabs carry their berries for six months.

3. 3
   noun

   A police car.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A dollar.

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

5. 5
   verb

   To pick berries.

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

6. 6
   name

   A male given name transferred from the surname.

   Beresford Conway. All my pals call me Berry.

7. 7
   name

   A female given name from English.

   "I'm Beryl Shaddock. Call me Berry," the girl said.

8. 8
   noun

   any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits

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, mou…