raspberry

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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!

2. 2
   adj

   Of a dark pinkish red.

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

3. 3
   verb

   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; […]

4. 4
   noun

   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."

5. 5
   noun

   a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

6. 6
   noun

   red or black edible aggregate berries usually smaller than the related blackberries

7. 7
   noun

   woody brambles bearing usually red but sometimes black or yellow fruits that separate from the receptacle when ripe and are rounder and smaller than blackberries

8. 8
   noun

   The plant Rubus idaeus.

Etymology

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.