Raspberries are small, soft, red fruit that grow on bushes.
2.
See to blow a raspberry
3. countable noun
If you blow a raspberry at someone or something, you reject them completely or criticize them severely.
[mainly British, journalism]
...a time to blow a modest raspberry at politics.
raspberry in British English
(ˈrɑːzbərɪ, -brɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-ries
1.
any of the prickly shrubs of the rosaceous genus Rubus, such as R. strigosus of E North America and R. idaeus of Europe, that have pinkish-white flowers and typically red berry-like fruits (drupelets)
See also bramble
2.
a.
the fruit of any such plant
b.
(as modifier)
raspberry jelly
3. black raspberry
4.
a.
a dark purplish-red colour
b.
(as adjective)
a raspberry dress
5.
a spluttering noise made with the tongue and lips to express contempt (esp in the phrase blow a raspberry)
Word origin
C17: from earlier raspis raspberry, of unknown origin + berry: C19 in sense 5, from rhyming slang raspberry tart fart
raspberry in American English
(ˈræzˌbɛri; ˈræzbəri)
nounWord forms: pluralˈraspˌberries
1.
the small, juicy, edible, aggregate fruit of various brambles (genus Rubus) of the rose family, consisting of a cluster of red, purple, or black drupelets
2.
any plant bearing this fruit
3. Slang
a sound of derision, contempt, etc. made by expelling air forcibly so as to vibrate the tongue between the lips
Word origin
earlier raspis berry < rasp, raspis, raspberry (prob. same word as ME raspis, kind of wine) + berry; (sense 3) < rhyming slang raspberry tart, fart