raspberryとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: räz'brē, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɑːzbɹi/
• (米国発音) enPR: răz'bĕ"rē, IPA^(key): /ˈɹæzˌbɛɹi/

語源 1

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.^[1]

名詞

raspberry (複数形 raspberries)

1. The plant Rubus idaeus.
2. Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
3. The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
4. A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.

   raspberry:  

同意語

• (廃れた用法) hindberry, raspis

Meronyms

• (aggregate fruit): drupelet

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ラズベリー (razuberī)

形容詞

raspberry (not comparable)

1. Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
2. Of a dark pinkish red.

   She wore a raspberry beret — lyrics of Raspberry Beret, by the musician Prince

動詞

raspberry (三人称単数 現在形 raspberries, 現在分詞 raspberrying, 過去形および過去分詞形 raspberried)

1. To gather or forage for raspberries.
   • 1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company (1903), page 137:

     […] 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; […]

   • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, Chapter 37:

     "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."

   • 1944, Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks, G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944), page 129:

     […] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.

   • 1976, Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward, Newport Press (1976), page 4:

     My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.

   • 1988, Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness, MysteriousPress.com (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying, she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.

参考

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• boysenberry
• loganberry
• salmonberry
• tayberry
• thimbleberry
• whitebark raspberry

参照

語源 2

Cockney rhyming slang, respectively from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is まれに used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it), and raspberry ripple = cripple.

名詞

raspberry (複数形 raspberries)

2. (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, 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, used humorously or to express derision.
   • 2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8:

     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."

   Synonyms: (米国用法) Bronx cheer, razz

3. (derogatory, colloquial) A cripple.

派生語

• blow a raspberry