strawberry

B1
US /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/ UK /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/
noun adj verb Freq #7830

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.

    They went to pick strawberries today.

  2. 2
    noun

    Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).

    She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.

  3. 3
    noun

    Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).

    strawberry marks

  4. 4
    noun

    A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.

    Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her

  5. 5
    noun

    A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.

    When Barey decided in 2020 to pursue porn full-time, she did not imagine that at 28 she would spend more time hunched over a desk – not in the fun way – making flow charts, scheduling Zoom calls, and sending pitch decks. “I’m at my happiest when I’m making a video like putting a strawberry in my butt and pushing it out,” she says. “Now I’m on calls all day and I have tech neck.”

  6. 6
    adj

    Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

    I'd like a large strawberry shake.

  7. 7
    adj

    Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.

    The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.

  8. 8
    verb

    To gather strawberries.

    We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster-der. Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *strew-der. Proto-Germanic *strawą Proto-West Germanic *strau Old English strēaw Proto-Germanic *bazją Proto-West Germanic *baʀi Old English berġe Old English strēawberġe Middle English strawbery English strawberry From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry. Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are: # from the fact that wild strawberries grow on straw-like runners (compare Norwegian stråbær, denoting cranb…

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Thesaurus

Synonyms
earthberrystrawbstrawberryishstrawberrylike
Word family
Derived forms pineberrystrasberrystrawbanastrawberritastrawberryadestrawberrylessstrawberrytini
Related forms arbutushautboy

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