strawberryn.
/ˈstrɔːbəri/ 1.
a. The ‘fruit’ (popularly so called) of any species of the genus Fragaria, a soft bag-shaped receptacle, of a characteristic colour (scarlet to yellowish), full of juicy acid pulp, and dotted over with small yellow seed-like achenes. It is eaten alone or crushed with sugar and cream (or wine). The wild or wood strawberry is smaller than the cultivated kinds.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > strawberry
strawberryc1000
straw-bug1908
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > strawberry
strawberryc1000
straw-bug1908
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 136/14 Fraga, streaberige.
1328–9 Exch. K.R. Mem. Rolls 2 Edw. III, m. 166 1 furcam de argento pro strauberiis.
c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 693 Frese rouge, streberie.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. ii. 75 And streberies, if hit be in time of yere.
?a1500 London Lickpenny ix. (Harl. 542) Hot pescods, one gan cry, strabery rype, and chery in the ryse.
1541 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 314 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 To a servaunte..that brought streberes to my Lorde Roose, iiijd.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth xiii. sig. H.i Rawe crayme vndecocted eaten with strawberyes, or hurtes is a rurall mans banket.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 126 The wilde or voluntary Strawberies..are not so good as those that are manured in gardens.
1661 I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 3) v. 118 We may say of Angling as Dr. Boteler said of Strawberries; Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did.
1788 J. Hurdis Village Curate (1797) 75 To Godstow bound..For strawberries and cream.
1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (ed. 2) 17 At my side she mashed the fragrant Strawberry.
b. A sea anemone, probably a variety of Actinia equina, the body of which resembles a strawberry.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Actiniaria > member of > resembling a strawberry
strawberry1856
1856 G. Tugwell Man. Sea-anemones ii. 33 Here is ‘the strawberry’, whose body is mottled with red and green, after the fashion of that pleasant fruit.
1856 ‘G. Eliot’ in Jrnls. (1998) vii. 265 It was a crescendo of delight when we found a ‘Strawberry’..in a low tide-pool.
1971 Oxf. Bk. Invertebrates 14/1 Particularly common is the ‘strawberry’ variant [of the beadlet anemone] in which the body is crimson with green spots.
c. The fruit of certain seaweeds resembling a strawberry. (Perhaps a misunderstanding by Kipling.)
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > parts of
air bladder1770
strawberry1896
1896 R. Kipling Captains Courageous iii, in McClure's Mag. Dec. 167/1 The hook had fouled among a bunch of strawberries, red on one side and white on the other.
2. The plant of the genus Fragaria which bears this fruit: a stemless herb with trifoliate leaves, white flowers, and slender runners which trail on the ground.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > strawberry plant
strawberryc1000
strawberry wisec1000
strawberry leafa1300
strawberry tree1548
strawberry vine1869
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 138 Ðeos wyrt ðe man fraga & oðrum naman streawbergean nemneð.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 22 Fragaria, Fraser, straubery.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 277/1 Straubery an herbe, fraysier.
1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 107 The Strawberrie is accounted among those hearbs that grow in the fieldes of their owne accorde.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lviii. 84 The Strawberrie with his small and slender hearie branches, creepeth alongst the ground.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 504 The Pine Strawberries have generally large flowers and fruit, with foliage of a darker green..than that of the scarlets.
1870 H. Macmillan True Vine (1872) v. 224 The fragrance that is absent from the leaf and the blossom of the strawberry is apparent in the delicious fruit.
3. A representation of the fruit as an ornament.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > fruit
pomegranatea1382
pineapple1448
strawberry1523
fruitage1600
pine1790
1523 in Archaeologia 38 360 A leyer of sylver, doble gylte, with a straibere on þe topp.
1533 in Kal. & Inv. Exch. (1836) II. 291 Item a salte of golde wrought wt braunches of strawburyes wt a tufte of strawburyes or hawes opon the cover.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 440 A handkercher, Spotted with strawberries.
4. Short for strawberry-coloured at Compounds 2c, strawberry red at Compounds 1, etc.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > other reds
madderOE
stammel colour1567
Paris red1600
strawberry red1675
strawberry1688
cornelian1718
dahlia1846
Pompeian red1868
crushed strawberry1881
wallflower red1883
framboise1895
raspberry1918
1688 London Gaz. No. 2364/4 A light Sorrel Nag, inclining to a Strawberry.
1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 222/1 They [sc. scarves] consist mostly of combination colors, just a few of which are blue, lavender, light green, cherry, strawberry, [etc.].
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 474 A blond feeble goosefat whore in a tatterdemalion gown of mildewed strawberry lolls spreadeagle in the sofa corner.
1954 Archit. Rev. 115 286/2 It makes a particularly good textured background for pictures, and is manufactured in six colours: natural, light corn, tobacco, strawberry, alizarin green and egyptian green.
1974 Harrod's Xmas Catal. 19 Luggage..in colourful Vinyl: light tan, orange, blue, or strawberry.
5. Short for strawberry jam at Compounds 2b.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] > jam
strawberry jam1523
raspberry jam1719
jam1736
strawberry1890
Murrumbidgee jam1901
1890 R. C. Lehmann Harry Fludyer 6 Cook says she is pleased you liked the jam, but there are only three of the strawberry left, and would you like some of the gooseberry?
6. Applied to things resembling a strawberry in shape or colour.
a. An emery bag in the shape of a strawberry.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > needle > needle case
needlefoddera1382
needle-housec1400
aguilera1425
needle case1440
tabouret1656
needle-book1693
emery bag1845
emery1864
emery cushion1873
strawberry1903
1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm vi. 66 She polished her needles to nothing, pushing them in and out of the emery strawberry.
1937 A. Thirkell Summer Half ix. 241 Enchanting odds and ends, such as strawberry emery cushions and ivory stilettoes.
1976 P. Clabburn Needleworker's Dict. 99/1 Emery cushion (emery bag, emery ball, strawberry), small pincushion, often in the shape of a strawberry, which is filled with emery powder... If needles become damp and rusty they are run through the cushion to make them shiny and smooth again.
b. A sore or bruise, esp. one caused by friction with the ground. North American colloquial.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > bruise
brusurea1375
frousshure1477
bruise1533
wan1533
battering1558
squat1578
intuse1590
battery1594
crush1601
contusiona1616
sugillation1623
mishanter1754
stone bruise1805
rainbow1810
birze1818
pound1862
strawberry1921
1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 13 Oct. 11/4 ‘Strawberry’, or open sore, on his hip, caused by sliding bases and constantly reopened.
1937 Pittsburgh Press 11 Jan. 27/5 Here are some expressions commonly used..; Strawberry, a bruise from sliding [etc.].
1981 Washington Star 19 Mar. d1 ‘Look at that,’ he said, hitching up his knickerbockers to reveal matching strawberries just above both knees, red and angry-looking. At least, they used to call them ‘strawberries’. He still does.
c. A nose having the colour of a strawberry, esp. as the result of heavy drinking.
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the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [noun] > face or nose
pippin face1598
malmsey-nose1600
firedrake1623
strawberry1949
1949 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) Addenda 1188/1 Strawberry,..a red nose: Cockney's.
1980 C. Smith Cut-out ix. 62 His nose..had turned..to the characteristic boozer's strawberry.
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C1. attributive, passing into adj. Resembling a strawberry in colour. Also strawberry pink, strawberry red, strawberry roan, crushed strawberry, etc.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > other reds
strawberry1675
raspberry red1735
pomegranate1844
framboise1904
raspberry1909
sunblush1930
crushed raspberry1931
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > other reds
madderOE
stammel colour1567
Paris red1600
strawberry red1675
strawberry1688
cornelian1718
dahlia1846
Pompeian red1868
crushed strawberry1881
wallflower red1883
framboise1895
raspberry1918
the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink > bright pink
strawberry pink1675
crevette1884
shrimp1895
flamingo1897
cyclamen1923
shocking pink1938
1675 London Gaz. No. 1038/4 Stolen..A strawberry Mare.
1690 Pagan Prince xxx. 83 A grave Gentleman with a Strawberry Countenance.
1854 Poultry Chron. 1 263/1 In colour they are mealy or strawberry, the wings barred with a redder tint.
1864 C. Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. (ed. 3) xxviii. 435 A strawberry-roan horse salient.
1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl i Our modern novelists dress her up afresh in the princess robe of the day (sage green or crushed strawberry).
1899 Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 3/1 A strawberry and white cow.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake 207 The lellipos cream to her lippeleens and the pick of the paintbox for her pommettes, from strawbirry reds to extra violates.
1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 113 [Cirrhopetalum] Amesianum, old gold, single haired, lower sepals strawberry-red.
1956 G. Durrell My Family & Other Animals ii. 28 (heading) The strawberry-pink villa.
C2.
a. Simple attributive, as strawberry bed, strawberry blossom, strawberry border, strawberry box (also figurative), strawberry garden, †strawberry-prick (= strawberry seed), strawberry root, strawberry runner, strawberry seed, strawberry time.
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1535 in E. Law Hist. Hampton Court Palace (1885) 372 For gathering of 34 bushells of strawberry rot.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 19 Wife into thy garden, & set me a plot, with strawbery rootes.
1619 Depositions Bk., Archd. Essex & Colchester 117 b Deponit that, in Strabury tyme was twelve moneth, [etc.].
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 62 in Sylva Dress up and string your Strawberry-beds.
1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. §7. i. 160 In colour, shape, and bigness like a Strawberry-seed.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 45 The curious Plants I here took particular notice of, are these:..9. Lychnis, with Flowers, speckled, like the Strawberry-pricks.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 96 The Vine-yard planted in Strawberry-borders.
1699 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 9) 99 Pluck up Strawberry Runners.
1787 J. Woodforde Diary 15 Oct. (1926) II. 352 I was very busy this morning in my Garden making some new Strawberry Beds.
1802 W. Wordsworth Foresight 3 Strawberry blossoms, one and all, We must spare them.
1892 W. B. Yeats Countess Kathleen ii. 34 My asparagus and strawberry beds Are trampled into clauber.
1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell vi. 93 Life just one strawberry-box after another.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 2042/1 An infected Strawberry bed should be cleared by burning all the plants.
1965 G. McInnes Road to Gundagai iii. 35 All about us they [sc. passengers] were vomiting into ‘strawberry boxes’.
b. Designating a confection or drink in which strawberries are an ingredient or flavouring, as †strawberry ale, strawberry water, strawberry wine; strawberry cream, strawberry ice, strawberry ice cream, strawberry jam, strawberry jelly, strawberry shortcake.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > other fruit dishes
figee1381
garnadec1440
gayledea1450
strawberry cream1523
strawberry shortcake1523
amber pudding1695
fufu1740
tum tum1790
poi1798
fig-cake1837
compote1845
ambrosia1867
summer pudding1875
schalet1884
charoset1885
angels' food1891
stuffed olive1897
chartreuse1900
crisp1916
guacamole1920
fruit cocktail1922
pimiento olive1925
fruit cup1931
crumble1947
matoke1959
turon1972
guac1983
bumbleberry1991
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > short-bread
strawberry shortcake1523
shortcake1594
shortbread1801
petticoat tail1819
shorty1882
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] > other confections or sweet dishes
pionade1302
spinee1381
pokerouncea1450
strawberry cream1523
pannag1540
alkermes1547
sugar-bread1587
snow1597
flammick1600
Norfolk fool1623
fool1653
chocolate cream1702
meringue1706
steeple cream1747
trifle1755
snowball1769
sweet bread1777
marrangle1809
meteor1820
mimpins1820
Nesselrode1835
meringué1845
Swiss cream1845
turban1846
coconut cream1847
panforte1865
yokan1875
bombe1892
Eton mess1896
meringue Chantilly1901
streusel1909
rocky road1920
ringocandy1922
stem ginger1922
dulce de leche1923
kissel1924
some-more1925
cream-crowdie1929
Pavlova cake1929
s'more1934
cranachan1946
sugar-on-snow1947
calavera1948
suji halwa1955
vacherin1960
zuppa inglese1961
brûlée1966
pav1966
delice1967
banoffi1974
macaroon1985
Nanaimo1991
macaron1993
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] > jam
strawberry jam1523
raspberry jam1719
jam1736
strawberry1890
Murrumbidgee jam1901
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > ale > [noun] > other ales
strawberry ale1523
red ale1557
sixteens1584
bottle ale1586
hostler ale1590
Pimlico1609
eyebright1612
quest-ale1681
hugmatee1699
Newcastle brown (ale)1707
pale ale1708
twopenny ale (or beer)1710
twoops1729
flux ale1742
pale1743
Ringwood1759
brown ale1776
light ale1780
blue cap1789
brown1820
India pale ale1837
Tipper1843
ostler ale1861
fourpenny ale1871
four-ale1883
ninepenny1886
Scotch1886
barley wine1940
IPA1953
light1953
real ale1972
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > non-grape and home-made wines > [noun] > others
cherry-winea1665
morello winea1665
strawberry winea1665
orange wine1675
raspberry wine1676
birch-wine1681
grape-wine1718
cowslip wine1723
barley wine1728
ginger wine1734
gooseberry1766
raspberry1768
mead-wine1794
parsnip wine1830
milk-wine1837
tea-wine1892
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [adjective] > types or forms of
strawberry ice1846
black and white1912
double dip1936
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > ices > [noun] > ice-cream > types or forms of
pistachio ice?1790
iced tea1827
tutti-frutti1834
brown-bread ice1846
vanilla ice1846
vanille ice1846
Neapolitan ice1867
Neapolitan ice cream1868
hokey-pokey1884
strawberry ice cream1890
choc chip1903
horn1908
Tortoni1911
slider1915
choc bar1919
cone1920
Eskimo pie1921
brick1922
brickette1922
Eskimo1922
choc ice1924
cornet1926
briquette1927
gelato1932
ninety-nine1935
wafer1936
fudgicle1938
ripple1939
tub1939
vanilla1955
double dip1965
1523 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 49 For strawbery ale and a posset iiijd.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. v. i. vi. 480 Strawbury water.
a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 127 Strawberry Wine.
1792 J. Woodforde Diary 26 June (1927) III. 359 Dinner..a very fine Leveret rosted, Strawberry Cream, Jelly.
1818 S. F. Gray Suppl. Pharmacopœias 291 Strawberry jelly.
1841 L. B. Swan Jrnl. of Trip to Michigan 20 June (1904) 28 We had a new dish, ‘Strawberry Short Cake’ very fine indeed.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 552 Fill it with strawberry ice.
1861 G. Trevelyan Horace at Athens (1862) 12 Pitching into strawberry-jam Like wranglers at their tea.
1862 Mrs. I. Williamson Pract. Cookery (ed. 5) 151 Strawberry Cream.
1890 R. C. Lehmann Harry Fludyer 8 Afterwards a strawberry ice cream landed on his shirt-front.
1953 G. W. Brace Spire xi. 93 I had strawberry shortcake... Hot biscuits, yellow cream, and quite often wild berries.
c. Parasynthetic and similative, as strawberry-breasted, strawberry-coloured, strawberry-like.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] > having particular or same colour feathers > on particular part
red-breasted1609
white-breasted1625
yellow-bellied1674
strawberry-breasted1688
white-fronted1729
blue-backed1752
blue-bellied1753
black-bellied1764
red-backed1766
black-fronted1771
red-fronted1781
blue-collared1788
rose-breasted1801
1688 London Gaz. No. 2310/4 A Strawberry colour'd Gelding above 13 hands.
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans IV. 196 An open chaise, drawn by a pair of strawberry coloured horses.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxi. 496 Its bright red strawberry-like berries.
1875 B. Meadows Clin. Observ. 15 The child is peevish,..with relaxed bowels, and a strawberry-like tongue.
1878 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 77 Star-eyed strawberry-breasted Throstle.
d. In recent U.S. dictionaries, in names of insects injurious to the fruit or plant, as strawberry borer, strawberry moth, strawberry sawfly, strawberry worm, etc.
C3. † b. In allusion to Latimer's condemnation of preachers who preach only once a year (see quots. below), as strawberry preacher, strawberry preaching, strawberry sermon; strawberry-wise adv.1566 in Latimer's Serm. (1844) 62 (note) A pitious case it is, that now in all Oxford there is not past five or six preachers, I except strawberry preachers.1606 S. Gardiner Bk. Angling 107 Then would not Sermons bee so daintie as they are, which come from some strawberre-wise, that is, once a yeere.1607 F. Mason Authoritie of Church 24 Wherefore that in stead of strawberie Sermons there might bee a more plentifull prouision in the house of God, our Church hath decreed, that [etc.].1615 S. Hieron Dignitie of Preaching 14 That, which old Latimer..once blamed vnder the witty terme of strawbery-preaching.1649 E. Sparke in J. Shute Sarah & Hagar To Rdr. sig. bv These are no strawberry-Sermons, pick'd and cull'd out with long vagaries.
a. † strawberry cinquefoil n. Obsolete the genus Potentilla. † strawberry cockle n. Obsolete some kind of shellfish. † strawberry wise n. (also †strawberry with) Obsolete = sense 2.
strawberry bass n. U.S. the fish Pomoxys sparoides.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish
dogdrave1227
lamprey1297
lingc1300
loach1357
tench1390
carpc1440
rougetc1485
anchovy1582
pompano1598
tai1620
alewife1633
tug-whitingc1650
weakfish1686
ten-pounder1699
fire-flaira1705
tusk1707
porgy1725
katsuo1727
rockfish1731
tautog1750
sea bass1765
Albany beef1779
sable1810
Murray cod1843
paradise fish1858
spot1864
strawberry bass1867
nannygai1871
maomao1873
spotfish1875
strawberry perch1877
milkfish1880
tarwhine1880
tile-fish1881
latchett1882
tile1893
anago1895
flake1906
branzino1915
rascasse1921
lampuki1925
red fish1951
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Pomoxys > pomoxys sparoides (strawberry bass)
grass bass1838
strawberry bass1867
strawberry perch1877
1867 T. F. De Voe Market Assistant 294 Calico bass, speckled bass, or partridge-tailed bass.—This fish is also known among our fishermen as the ‘strawberry bass’.
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 465 Pomoxys sparoides,..Strawberry Bass.
1947 B. W. Dalrymple Panfish 81 You'd think there be Strawberry Bass..in there.
strawberry blite n. a herb, Chenopodium capitatum, with triangular leaves and heads of small flowers followed by fruit resembling a strawberry.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > goose-foot
goose-foot1548
oak of Jerusalem1551
chenopod1555
oak of Paradise1578
stinking motherwort1578
allseed1597
chenopodium1597
good King Harry1597
stinking orach1597
sowbane1657
strawberry blite1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. App. Strawberry-blite.
1900 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: A–D 290/2 The common Strawberry Blite..has been introduced to the trade as a pot-herb.
1943 M. L. Fernald & A. C. Kinsey Edible Wild Plants Eastern N. Amer. iii. 180 The Strawberry-Blite, one of the most striking plants of Canadian clearings, on account of its masses of brilliant red pulpy fruits, may be used as a potherb like spinach.
1970 Beaver Winter 23 Strawberry spinach, also known as..strawberry blite, is similar to its close cousin, lamb's quarters.
strawberry blond adj. (also strawberry blonde) applied to hair of a light reddish blond colour; as n., the colour itself; a person with hair of this colour.
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the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [noun] > person having light
blonde1822
tow-head1829
blondie1882
strawberry blond1884
bottle blonde1898
ash-blond1903
peroxide1903
peroxide blonde1909
platinum blonde1931
the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > light hair
yellowOE
blonde1481
towy1858
blondine1867
red-blond1875
strawberry blond1884
ash-blond1903
tow-like1907
bottle blonde1908
blondish1961
strawish1978
1884 B. Nye Baled Hay 98 That is what is..sprinkling my strawberry blonde hair with gray.
1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 6 Feb. 12/2 Seventeen young women, with hair ranging from strawberry blonde to deep crimson, are seated..on a long platform.
1895 Palmer & Ward Band played On (song) 4 Casey would waltz with a strawberry blond, And the Band played on.
1958 Daily Express 17 Mar. 1/4 An unassuming strawberry blonde.
1977 B. Bainbridge Injury Time ii. 19 Alma's hair, rinsed to an unusual shade of strawberry blonde.
strawberry bottom n. a sea-bottom covered with plants bearing this fruit.
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1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous viii, in McClure's Mag. Feb. 353/2 She acts as though she were on strawberry bottom. It's all sand here, ain't it?
strawberry bush n. (a) = strawberry shrub n.; (b) the shrub Euonymus americanus, with crimson and scarlet pods.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > non-British euonymus shrubs
pearl-tree1693
euonymus1767
strawberry tree1813
strawberry bush1856
wahoo1860
burning bush1866
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American > Calycanthus or California allspice
allspice1759
strawberry bush1856
Calycanthus1864
calycanth1866
Carolina allspice1866
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 81 Euonymus Americanus, Strawberry Bush.
1859 W. Darlington & G. Thurber Amer. Weeds & Useful Plants 135 Calycanthus..Strawberry-bush.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > potentilla or cinquefoil
quinquefoileOE
five-leafc1000
goose-grassa1400
camorochec1440
five-leaved grass1526
tansyc1530
cinquefoil1538
potentilla1548
five-fingered grass1562
agrimony1578
silverweed1578
goose-tansy1597
silver grass1600
silverwort1611
five-finger-grass1640
midsummer silvera1697
strawberry cinquefoil1753
Scotch cinquefoil1789
goose-weed1865
five-finger1866
fair days1884
fair-grass1884
potentil1884
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Pentaphylloides The erect pentaphylloides, called by authors the strawberry-cinque-foil.
strawberry clover n. = strawberry trefoil n. (Prior Plant.-n. 1863).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > other types of mollusc
squame1393
shell-worm1591
spout-fish1594
pentadactyl1601
sea cucumber1601
pirot1611
worm1621
nun-fish1661
scarlet mussel1672
sea-navel1678
redcap?1711
strawberry cockle1713
sea-finger1748
sea-nail1748
sea-acorn1755
coneya1757
compass1776
bubble shell1818
glass-shell1851
golden comb1857
cryptodont1893
nuculoid1960
1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 4/2 Red Strawbery Cockle.
1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 195 Cardium Fragum. White Strawberry Cockle. C. Unedo. Strawberry Cockle.
strawberry comb n. a cock's-comb resembling a strawberry.
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the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > hen or cock > [noun] > cock > parts of > comb
comba1000
coxcomb?a1425
cockcomb?c1475
strawberry comb1746
1746 in Poultry Chron. (1855) 3 439 Yellow Dun, low strawberry comb.
strawberry crab n. (see quot. 1850).
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1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 8 Eurynome aspera, Strawberry Crab.
strawberry dish n. Silverwork (see quot. 1977).
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish
spice-plate1391
pie plate1573
maple dish1637
cheese platea1665
supper dish1664
copperplate1665
reaming dish1712
paper plate1723
pickle leaf1762
pap-boat1782
supper1787
vegetable dish1799
well-dish1814
ice plate1820
pudding plate1838
tea plate1862
picnic plate1885
strawberry dish1941
1941 Burlington Mag. Aug. 68/1 A set of four strawberry dishes—also silver-gilt, by Paul Crispin, 1734.
1977 J. Fleming & H. Honour Penguin Dict. Decorative Arts 766/1 Strawberry dish, a type of late C17–C18 English silver dish, deeper but no larger than a plate, rather thin with punched decorations in the C17, more substantial and usually with a scalloped rim in the C18. It is improbable that such dishes were used originally only for strawberries.
Strawberry Fields n. [probably < Strawberry Fields Forever, title of a song (1967) by John Lennon and Paul McCartney] slang = LSD n.2
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > hallucinogenic drug > LSD
white lightning1907
lysergic acid diethylamide1944
LSD1950
lysergic acid1952
acid1965
lysergide1965
purple haze1967
purple1968
Strawberry Fields1971
1971 Telegraph (Brisbane) 27 Oct. 3/1 A youth had seven tablets of LSD, known as ‘Strawberry Fields’, when picked up in a city hotel by detectives.
1976 H. Ferguson Confessions Long Distance Acid Head 22 Then came the fatal trip which led..to my fleeing to India to forget. I was on Blue Cheer, I think, though it could have been Strawberry Fields.
strawberry finch n. the amadavat.
strawberry geranium n. (see quot. 1880).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > saxifrage flowers
prattling parnel1597
pride of London1629
prince's feather1629
London pride1697
none-so-pretty1731
sanicle1760
heuchera1772
nancy-pretty1825
Bergenia1838
St. Patrick's cabbage1851
spider plant1852
strawberry geranium1880
garden gate1881
megasea1886
maiden's wreath1893
mother of thousands1910
1880 C. E. Bessey Bot. 526 Saxifraga sarmentosa, the so-called Strawberry Geranium, a fine basket plant from China.
strawberry guava n. a shrub or small tree, Psidium cattleianum, of the family Myrtaceæ, native to tropical America and bearing white flowers and large edible berries; also, the red or yellow fruit of this tree.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > berry > [noun] > other berries
hedge-berry1607
elderberry1625
ramble-berry1658
cloudberry1743
Indian pear1796
bluet1812
squawberry1829
pigface1830
wax-berry1835
quandong1836
strawberry guava1901
bead-berry1923
squash-berry1935
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries
blueberry1594
hedge-berry1607
elderberry1625
huckleberry1670
bearberry1677
cloudberry1743
baked apple1750
pembina1760
service1785
honeyberry1787
nub-berry1794
bluet1812
noop1817
squawberry1829
quandong1836
miro1838
strawberry guava1901
squash-berry1935
tayberry1977
tummelberry1984
1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1460/2 Strawberry Guava. Shrub or small tree, 10–20 ft. high... Pulp fleshy, soft and juicy, purplish red next the skin,..sweet and acid, with a strawberry-like fragrance and flavor.
1976 Monitor (McAllen, Texas) 7 Nov. 1 c/1 (caption) The strawberry guava, a shrublike tree, produces a fig-like fruit almost cherry-sized that can be eaten raw and can also be made into jellies.
strawberry-headed trefoil n. = strawberry trefoil n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil
white clovereOE
cloverc1000
hare-foota1300
clerewort?a1400
clover-grassa1400
three-leaved grass14..
trefoilc1400
sucklingc1440
four-leaved grassc1450
trefle1510
Trifolium?1541
trinity grass1545
Dutch1548
lote1548
hare's-foot1562
lotus1562
triple grass1562
blain-grass1570
meadow trefoil1578
purple grass1597
purplewort1597
satin flower1597
cithyse1620
true-love grass?a1629
garden balsam1633
hop-clover1679
Burgundian hay1712
strawberry trefoil1731
honeysuckle trefoil1735
red clover1764
buffalo-clover1767
marl-grass1776
purple trefoil1785
white trefoil1785
yellow trefoil1785
sulla1787
cow-grass1789
strawberry-bearing trefoil1796
zigzag trefoil1796
rabbit's foot1817
lotus grass1820
strawberry-headed trefoil1822
mountain liquorice1836
hop-trefoil1855
clustered clover1858
alsike1881
mountain clover1882
knop1897
Swedish clover1908
sub clover1920
four-leaf clover1927
suckle-
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 271 Strawberry headed Trefoil.
Strawberry Hill n. Architecture the name of the house in Twickenham bought in 1747 and rebuilt by Horace Walpole after the Gothic style, used attributively to designate the style of early Gothic Revivalist architecture inspired and epitomized by this house.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > Gothic > Gothic revival
revival1806
churchwarden1821
American Gothic1836
Strawberry Hill1836
Gothic1841
Puginesquery1848
Gothic Revival1869
1836 R. Griffin Hist. Audley End v. 127 The chapel..was newly fitted up..according to the fashion of the day, with..clustered pilasters, and a groined ceiling, in the style called after its patron, Strawberry Hill Gothic.
1891 T. G. Bonney in Hist. Houses of United Kingdom 90 A room..now serves as a chapel... It is..a specimen of Strawberry Hill Gothic.
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xix. 344 The fantastic towers and pinnacles of Gattenden Castle, built..in the most extravagant style of Strawberry Hill Gothic.
1977 Times 6 Aug. 3/3 The eleventh duke [of Norfolk] rebuilt it [sc. Arundel Castle] in the Strawberry Hill baronial fantasy style.
strawberry-mark n. a birth-mark or nævus resembling a strawberry.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > birth-mark
birthmark1579
longing mark1644
native note1658
signature1659
naevus1684
mother spot1690
naevus maternus1726
mother's mark1797
mother mark1822
strawberry-mark1847
birth stain1850
port wine mark1853
spider cancer1898
spider-naevus1898
spider1942
spider angioma1956
1847 J. M. Morton Box & Cox (at end) Have you such a thing as a strawberry mark on your left arm?
strawberry pear n. the fruit of the West Indian cactus Cereus triangularis, or the plant itself ( Treasury Bot. 1866).
strawberry perch n. U.S. = strawberry bass n.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish
dogdrave1227
lamprey1297
lingc1300
loach1357
tench1390
carpc1440
rougetc1485
anchovy1582
pompano1598
tai1620
alewife1633
tug-whitingc1650
weakfish1686
ten-pounder1699
fire-flaira1705
tusk1707
porgy1725
katsuo1727
rockfish1731
tautog1750
sea bass1765
Albany beef1779
sable1810
Murray cod1843
paradise fish1858
spot1864
strawberry bass1867
nannygai1871
maomao1873
spotfish1875
strawberry perch1877
milkfish1880
tarwhine1880
tile-fish1881
latchett1882
tile1893
anago1895
flake1906
branzino1915
rascasse1921
lampuki1925
red fish1951
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Pomoxys > pomoxys sparoides (strawberry bass)
grass bass1838
strawberry bass1867
strawberry perch1877
1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer 378 Strawberry Perch... Pomoxys hexacanthus.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 69 In Lake Erie, and in Ohio generally, it is the ‘Strawberry Bass’, ‘Strawberry Perch’ or ‘Grass Bass’.
strawberry pot n. a large garden pot with pockets in its sides, designed to contain growing strawberry plants.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > flower-pot or tub > specialized types
sixteen1802
sixty1802
twelve1802
sices1824
hyacinth-glass1836
strawberry pot1946
ring1953
1946 M. Free All about House Plants ix. 67 ‘Strawberry pots’ made of earthenware..are much used, suitably planted, for patio decoration in California.
1977 Jellicoe & Allen Town Gardens to live In xi. 125/2 (heading) A handmade strawberry pot. It will take twenty-eight plants.
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strawberry shrub n. U.S. = Calycanthus n.
strawberry spinach n. = strawberry blite n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Chenopodiaccae (goose-foot and allies) > [noun] > other plants of the Chenopodiaceae
blitec1420
strawberry spinach1731
Malabar nightshade1760
tick-seed1760
epazote1848
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Chenopodio-morus; major..commonly call'd Strawberry Spinage.
strawberry tomato n. U.S. a ground-cherry of the genus Physalis or its edible fruit.
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1862 M. D. Colt Went to Kansas ix. 133 The strawberry tomatoes..are indigenous to the soil.
1867 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1874) 382 Physalis Alkekengi. Strawberry Tomato.
1919 E. L. Sturtevant Notes Edible Plants 432 P. lanceolata..was among the strawberry tomatoes grown at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in 1886.
1969 S. G. Harrison et al. Oxf. Bk. Food Plants 126/2 The ground cherry, which is also called ‘Strawberry Tomato’.., is an annual, native in parts of eastern and central North America.
strawberry tongue n. (see quot. 1874).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of mouth > [noun] > disorders of tongue
froga1398
ranula?a1425
tongue-evil1662
agrom1753
frog-tongue1822
glossocele1823
black tongue1833
glossitis1834
glossoplegia1854
strawberry tongue1874
smoker's patch1888
parrot tongue1897
1874 Dunglison's Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) Strawberry Tongue, a characteristic appearance of the tongue in scarlatina, in which, after the clearing away of a thick white fur, the organ becomes preternaturally red and clean.
strawberry tree n. †(a) = sense 2; (b) = arbutus n. 1; also = madroño n.; (c) U.S. = strawberry bush n. (b).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > arbutus or strawberry tree
strawberry tree1548
arbute1551
arbutus1551
memerill1592
winter strawberry1708
madroño?1842
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > strawberry plant
strawberryc1000
strawberry wisec1000
strawberry leafa1300
strawberry tree1548
strawberry vine1869
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > non-British euonymus shrubs
pearl-tree1693
euonymus1767
strawberry tree1813
strawberry bush1856
wahoo1860
burning bush1866
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 584/29 Fragus, a streberytre.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. B.ijv Arbutus..may be called in english strawbery tree, or an arbute tree.
1719 Petty's Polit. Surv. Irel. (ed. 2) 109 That part of Kerry called Desmond, where the Arbutus or Strawberry Tree groweth in great Quantity.
1792 A. Menzies Jrnl. 2 May in Menzies' Jrnl. of Vancouver's Voy. (1923) 20 The Oriental Strawberry Tree..at this time a peculiar ornament to the Forest by its large clusters of whitish flowers & ever green leaves, but its peculiar smooth bark of a reddish brown colour will at all times attract the Notice of the most superficial observer.
1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 25 Euonymus Americanus, (burning bush, strawberry tree).
1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum II. 1117 The Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree... Robust evergreen shrubs, or low trees.
1845 A. Gray Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 2) 376 Euonymus Americanus (sometimes called Strawberry-tree).
1868 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1865–6 6 391 The Strawberry Tree, with its delicate foliage, green wood and beautiful berries.
1975 D. McClintock Wild Flowers of Guernsey 155 The Strawberry Tree..has established itself in Jersey.
strawberry trefoil n. Trifolium fragiferum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil
white clovereOE
cloverc1000
hare-foota1300
clerewort?a1400
clover-grassa1400
three-leaved grass14..
trefoilc1400
sucklingc1440
four-leaved grassc1450
trefle1510
Trifolium?1541
trinity grass1545
Dutch1548
lote1548
hare's-foot1562
lotus1562
triple grass1562
blain-grass1570
meadow trefoil1578
purple grass1597
purplewort1597
satin flower1597
cithyse1620
true-love grass?a1629
garden balsam1633
hop-clover1679
Burgundian hay1712
strawberry trefoil1731
honeysuckle trefoil1735
red clover1764
buffalo-clover1767
marl-grass1776
purple trefoil1785
white trefoil1785
yellow trefoil1785
sulla1787
cow-grass1789
strawberry-bearing trefoil1796
zigzag trefoil1796
rabbit's foot1817
lotus grass1820
strawberry-headed trefoil1822
mountain liquorice1836
hop-trefoil1855
clustered clover1858
alsike1881
mountain clover1882
knop1897
Swedish clover1908
sub clover1920
four-leaf clover1927
suckle-
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I Trifolium; fragiferum... Strawberry-Trefoil.
strawberry vine n. = sense 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > strawberry plant
strawberryc1000
strawberry wisec1000
strawberry leafa1300
strawberry tree1548
strawberry vine1869
1869 A. J. Evans Vashti iii. 44 I..pull out grass and weeds from the strawberry vines.
strawberry weevil n. a small black and white beetle, Anthonomus signatus, found in eastern North America, where it lays its eggs in strawberry buds, so that no fruit is formed.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Curculionidae or genus Curculio > anthonomus signatus (strawberry weevil)
strawberry weevil1884
1884 Ann. Rep. Michigan State Hort. Soc. 1883 155 This strawberry weevil..was described by Thomas Say.
1929 E. C. Auchter & H. B. Knapp Orchard & Small Fruit Culture xiv. 486 Strawberry Weevil..lays its eggs in the flower buds and then girdles the stem so as to prevent further development.
1976 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 May 10/2 Another expense was combating the strawberry weevil.
strawberry wire n. the runner of the strawberry plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > strawberry plant > parts of
strawberry wire1601
strawberry leaf1893
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxv. ix. 228 (margin) The leaves of Cinquefoile are much like to the Strawberrie leafe: But as the one hath no fruit or berrie at all, so the other (to wit, the Strawberrie-wire) puts forth but three leaves.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Straberry-wires, strawberry-runners.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > strawberry plant
strawberryc1000
strawberry wisec1000
strawberry leafa1300
strawberry tree1548
strawberry vine1869
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 136/15 Framen, streaberiewisan.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 478/2 Strawbery wyse [Winch. MS. strawbyry vyse], fragus.
c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 177 Tak bugle, streberywyse, mene consond [etc.].
1483 Cath. Angl. 367/1 A Straberi wythe, fragus.
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the world > time > period > year > [adverb]
yearlyeOE
by yeara1382
year by yeara1393
from year to yearc1400
per annum1531
strawberry-wise1548
annuallya1555
per ann.1610
anniversarilya1631
twelvemonthly1847
the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [noun] > rare or occasional thing
strawberry preaching1548
hen's teeth1700
blue moon1821
gold dust1840
a sometime thing1935
society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > once a year
strawberry preaching1548
society > faith > worship > preaching > [adverb] > once a year
strawberry-wise1548
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > preacher > [noun] > only once a year
strawberry preacher1548
society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > preached once a year
strawberry sermon1548
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. A.vi The preachyng of the woorde of God vnto the people is called meat... Not strawberies, that come but once a yeare and tarye not longe... The people muste haue meate that muste be familier and continuall, and dayly geuen vnto them to fede vpon. Many make a strauberye of it, ministrynge it but once a yeare, but suche do not thoffice of good prelates.
Derivatives
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > spot or mark > birth-mark
strawberried1675
birthmarked1882
1675 London Gaz. No. 1035/4 Strayed away,..a gray Gelding,..Strawberred in the near Cheak.
ˈstrawberrying n. gathering strawberries (in to go strawberrying).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > berry-picking
strawberrying1634
huckleberrying1721
whorting1746
blackberrying1786
barberrying1859
bilberrying1859
berrying1884
1634 J. Shirley Example iv. i I can gather Warme Snowe from her faire brow, her chin, her neck,..Sated with these, I'le finde new appetite, And come a wanton strawberying to her cheekes.
1856 S. Warner Hills of Shatemuc viii I wonder who'll go strawberrying with them?
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