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单词 dayberry
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dayberryn.

Brit. /ˈdeɪb(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈdeɪˌbɛri/
Forms: 1700s– dabberry, 1700s– deberry, 1800s– dayberry.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: dewberry n.
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of dewberry n., after day n. Compare earlier feaberry n.
English regional (south-western and Kent). Now historical and rare.
= gooseberry n. 1. Cf. dewberry n.
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1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms Dabberries pl., gooseberries.
a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1839) 53 Aye, zure; and her, leaning over the hatch, look'd delighted to zee es, and wid always dole out zomething—a tetty o' rosen, or ripe deberries, christlings, or mazzards, or crumplings.
1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I Deberries, gooseberries. Devon.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 17/1 Day-berry, the wild gooseberry.
1882 H. Friend Gloss. Devonshire Plant Names 19 Deberries, fruit of Ribes Grossularia, L.
1990 J. Ayto Glutton's Dict. 126 What does seem clear is that before the name gooseberry was adopted, the fruit was called thevethorn.., and that thevethorn survived dialectically well into the nineteenth century, both as theabe, thepe, and thape in Scotland, Yorkshire, and East Anglia and in the slightly altered forms feaberry and dayberry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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