strawberry
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
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 strawberie
English strawberry
From Middle English strawberie, strawbery, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry.
Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are:
# from the fact that wild strawberries grow on straw-like runners (compare Norwegian stråbær, denoting cranberries, which grow in a similar way);
# from the practice, still common in parts of Europe, of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk.
Compound parts: straw
berry
Inflected forms:
form: strawberries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: strawberrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: strawberriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: strawberries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: strawberrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: strawberried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: strawberried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They went to pick strawberries today.
Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.”
Is there a sweeter time of year than strawberry season? As soon as the trees start bursting into pink buds, the first strawberries can’t be far behind at the farmers market.
gloss: Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.
He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.
gloss: The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: strawberry marks
I have stretch marks and strawberry legs [follicles or blocked pores that appear as black dots]^([sic]); discoloration all over my body.
gloss: A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her
[…] infamous in Los Angeles through media reports: the crack houses and "strawberries" (women who exchange sex for crack) […]
I'm makin mo' deals than a strawberry might
I'll lick your clit, if you suck my pipe
The desperate addiction associated with the drug has made "strawberries" — prostitutes who work for crack — fixtures of the […]
gloss: A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When Barey decided in 2020 to pursue porn full-time, she did not imagine that at 28 she would spend more time hunched over a desk – not in the fun way – making flow charts, scheduling Zoom calls, and sending pitch decks. “I’m at my happiest when I’m making a video like putting a strawberry in my butt and pushing it out,” she says. “Now I’m on calls all day and I have tech neck.”
gloss: Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.
pos: adj
examples: I'd like a large strawberry shake.
We sing you a song of the strawberriest Strawberry Ice Cream on earth.
At any rate, you will agree with me that this is the “strawberriest tastin’ ” pie that you’ve ever tasted.
Sixty seconds of boiling, and you’ll be admiring the strawberriest strawberry jam you ever tasted.
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.
With at least 26 berries like these in every jar like this, how must Kraft Pure Strawberry Preserves taste? The strawberriest best!
And your strawberry ice cream can be the strawberriest and your peach ice cream the peachiest.
lessons exist because frozen strawberries in store are easier to pick but wild strawberries taste strawberrier.
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).
Now Jell-O® Strawberry Flavor Gelatin tastes even Strawberrier.
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.
Kiwi, Kiwi, chirping bright / In the forests of the night / Only a Kiwi could be merrier / About shortcake so strawberrier!
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.
It’s the strawberriest shortcake ever.
Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, strawberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.
“The strawberriest ice cream I have ever tasted!” was the verdict of my daughter Lindsay.
Mind you, I have to admit they were three of the strawberriest looking strawberries I have ever seen.
It was the strawberriest strawberry ever.
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!”
Right now, strawberries are their strawberriest.
gloss: Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.
pos: adj
examples: The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.
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.
gloss: To gather strawberries.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.
gloss: To turn a dark pinkish-red.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.
Synonyms: earthberry
strawb
strawberryish
strawberrylike
Related words: arbutus
Carolina allspice
hautboy
Derived words: alpine strawberry
barren strawberry
beach strawberry
bog strawberry
Chilean strawberry
Chinese strawberry tree
coastal strawberry
creeping strawberry pine
crushed strawberry
false strawberry
garden strawberry
hautbois strawberry
hautboy strawberry
Indian strawberry
Irish strawberry
mock strawberry
musk strawberry
pineberry
red strawberry tongue
scarlet strawberry
sea strawberry
strasberry
strawbana
strawberrita
strawberryade
strawberry aldehyde
strawberry aphid
strawberry begonia
strawberry blite
strawberry blond
strawberry blonde
strawberry bud weevil
strawberry bush
strawberry cactus
strawberry clover
strawberry crab
strawberry gallbladder
strawberry generation
strawberry geranium
strawberry guava
strawberry hemangioma
Strawberry Hill
strawberry leaf
strawberry legs
strawberryless
strawberry mark
strawberry moon
strawberry myrtle
strawberry pear
strawberry raspberry
strawberry roan
strawberry root weevil
strawberry saxifrage
strawberry shortcake
strawberry shrub
strawberry snail (Trochulus striolatus
strawberrytini
strawberry tomato
strawberry tongue
strawberry tree
strawberry weevil
strawberry wine
Virginia strawberry
wild strawberry
wood strawberry
woodland strawberry
yellow strawberry
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: jahodový
lang: Danish
word: jordbær-
lang: Dutch
word: aardbeien-
lang: Finnish
word: mansikka-
lang: German
word: Erdbeer-
lang: German
word: erdbeerig
lang: Japanese
word: 苺味の
roman: ichigoaji no
lang: Polish
word: truskawkowy
lang: Portuguese
word: de morango
lang: Russian
word: земляни́чный
roman: zemljaníčnyj
lang: Russian
word: клубни́чный
roman: klubníčnyj
lang: Slovak
word: jahodový
lang: Swedish
word: jordgubbs-
lang: Turkish
word: çilekli
lang: Ukrainian
word: суни́чний
roman: sunýčnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: полуни́чний
roman: polunýčnyj