strawberry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/
Forms: form: strawberrier
form: strawberriest
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-
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. May derive from the practice (still common in parts of Europe) of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk. By surface analysis, straw + berry.
Senses: examples: text: I'd like a large strawberry shake.
text: We sing you a song of the strawberriest Strawberry Ice Cream on earth.
ref: 1941 May 8, Chicago Daily Tribune, volume C, number 110, page 8:
text: At any rate, you will agree with me that this is the “strawberriest tastin’ ” pie that you’ve ever tasted.
ref: 1948 May 5, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 100, number 243, St. Louis, Mo., page 3D:
text: Sixty seconds of boiling, and you’ll be admiring the strawberriest strawberry jam you ever tasted.
ref: 1961 June, McCall’s, volume LXXXVIII, number 9, page 47:
text: Fraser Recorded in Scotland in mid-1100s as de Frisselle, de Freseliere, de Fresel, as if from a place in France, and Sir Simon F— (executed 1306) is referred to as Simond Frysel; first element ?‘ash tree’ of, the –er ?to make it ‘strawberrier’ – a pun on the three silver cinquefoils or fraises in their armorials.
ref: 1967, Basil Cottle, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames, Penguin Books, published 1969, page 109:
text: With at least 26 berries like these in every jar like this, how must Kraft Pure Strawberry Preserves taste? The strawberriest best!
ref: 1968 March, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXXXV, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 122:
text: And your strawberry ice cream can be the strawberriest and your peach ice cream the peachiest.
ref: 1973, Glenn Andrews, Impromptu Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 216:
text: lessons exist because frozen strawberries in store are easier to pick but wild strawberries taste strawberrier.
ref: 1975 fall, sue ellen farmer, The Student, page thirty-seven, column 2:
text: My strawberriest of strawberry sauces was simply strawberries, whirred until chunky in the blender, then spooned over vanilla ice cream (or, in this case, low-fat ice milk).
ref: 1978, Barbara [Halloran] Gibbons, The International Slim Gourmet Cookbook, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 324:
text: Now Jell-O® Strawberry Flavor Gelatin tastes even Strawberrier.
ref: 1979 June 5, Family Circle, page 41:
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text: When used to sweeten out-of-season California strawberries, the berries are not only sweeter but “strawberrier,” with a flavor more like home-grown or field-ripened fruit.
ref: 1982, Barbara [Halloran] Gibbons, Slim Gourmet Sweets and Treats, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 11:
text: Kiwi, Kiwi, chirping bright / In the forests of the night / Only a Kiwi could be merrier / About shortcake so strawberrier!
ref: 1998, Les Fox, Sue Fox, The Beanie Baby Handbook, West Highland Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 161:
text: It occurred to me when I was last making the strawberries in dark syrup from How to Eat that there was no reason why I couldn’t use the balsamic vinegar – which provides the darkness and really does seem to make the strawberries strawberrier – when making jam.
ref: 2000, Nigella Lawson, How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 347:
text: It’s the strawberriest shortcake ever.
ref: 2004 May, Sunset, page 127:
text: Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, strawberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.
ref: 2005, Rowan Clifford, Rodeo Ron and His Milkshake Cows, Borzoi Books, →ISBN:
text: “The strawberriest ice cream I have ever tasted!” was the verdict of my daughter Lindsay.
ref: 2009, Annette Yates, Ice Cream Made Easy: Homemade Recipes for Ice Cream Machines, Right Way, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Mind you, I have to admit they were three of the strawberriest looking strawberries I have ever seen.
ref: 2011, Hartley Pool, Stranger in Taiwan, Revenge Ink, →ISBN, page 77:
text: It was the strawberriest strawberry ever.
ref: 2013, Caroline Green, Hold Your Breath, Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 125:
text: HANNAH SAYS: “Wow, these are incredibly juicy. These are the strawberriest things in the world. They’re more strawberry[-]ish than actual strawberries. They’re incredible!”
ref: 2013 January, Front, number 177, page 38:
text: Right now, strawberries are their strawberriest.
ref: 2022 June 9, Daniel Neman, “Strawberry spectacular”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXVI, section 4, page 4, column 1:
glosses: Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
glosses: Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
examples: text: The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.
text: They are, at once, beautiful and curious, with their translucent white skin and strawberriest blond hair, looking like a group of Wagner’s Valkyrie lost in a Puccini opera.
ref: 2006, Ida Liberkowski, Cynthia Malizia, Along the Amalfi Drive, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 282:
glosses: Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.
Synonyms: strawberryish
strawberrylike