strawberry
(ˈstrɔːbərɪ)
Forms: see straw n. and berry n.1: also 4–6 straubery, 5–6 strebere, 6 strai-, strawbere, 7 -berre, strewbery, stra-, strawbury.
[OE. stréaw-, stréow, stréa-, stréuberiᵹe, f. stréaw straw n.1 + beriᵹe berry n.
No corresponding word is found in any other Teut. lang. The reason for the name has been variously conjectured. One explanation refers the first element to straw n.1 2, a particle of straw or chaff, a mote, describing the appearance of the achenes scattered over the surface of the strawberry; another view is that it designates the runners (cf. straw n.1 3).
The view of Kluge, that OE. stréaw- in streawberiᵹe is cogn. w. L. frāgum strawberry, is not phonologically satisfactory, and is also open to objection on other grounds.]
I. 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.
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 136/14 Fraga, streaberiᵹe. 1328–9 Exch. K.R. Mem. Rolls, 2 Edw. III, m. 166, 1 furcam de argento pro strauberiis. c 1340 Nominale (Skeat) 693 Frese rouge, streberie. c 1450 Two Cookery-bks. ii. 75 And streberies, if hit be in time of yere. ? a 1500 London Lickpenny ix. (MS. Harl. 542) Hot pescods, one gan cry, strabery rype, and chery in the ryse. 1541 in MSS. Dk. Rutland (Hist. MSS. Comm.) IV. 314 To a servaunte..that brought streberes to my Lorde Roose, iiijd. 1542 Boorde Dyetary xiii. (1870) 267 Rawe crayme vndecocted, eaten with strawberyes or hurtis, is a rurall mannes banket. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 126 The wilde or voluntary Strawberies..are not so good as those that are manured in gardens. 1655 Walton Angler i. v. (1661) 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 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.
| 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 Geo. Eliot Jrnl. 8 May–26 June in Lett. (1954) II. 243 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.)
| 1897 Kipling Capt. Cour. iii. 53 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.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 138 Ðeos wyrt ðe man fraga & oðrum naman streawberᵹean nemneð. a 1387 Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 22 Fragaria, Fraser, straubery. 1530 Palsgr. 277/1 Straubery an herbe, fraysier. 1563 T. Hill Art Garden. (1593) 107 The Strawberrie is accounted among those hearbs that grow in the fieldes of their owne accorde. 1578 Lyte Dodoens i. lviii. 84 The Strawberrie with his small and slender hearie branches, creepeth alongst the ground. 1866 Treas. Bot. 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 v. (1872) 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.
| 1523 in Archæologia XXXVIII. 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 w{supt} braunches of strawburyes w{supt} a tufte of strawburyes or hawes opon the cover. 1604 Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 435 A Handkerchiefe Spotted with Strawberries. |
4. Short for
strawberry colour,
red, etc.
| 1688 Lond. Gaz. No. 2364/4 A light Sorrel Nag, inclining to a Strawberry. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. 222/1 They [sc. scarves] consist mostly of combination colors, just a few of which are blue, lavender, light green, cherry, strawberry, [etc.]. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 492 A blond feeble goosefat whore in a tatterdemalion gown of mildewed strawberry lolls spreadeagle in the sofacorner. 1954 [see alizarin]. 1974 Harrod's Xmas Catal. 19 Luggage..in colourful Vinyl: light tan, orange, blue, or strawberry. |
5. Short for
strawberry jam.
| 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.
| 1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm vi. 66 She polished her needles to nothing, pushing them in and out of the emery strawberry. 1937 [see emery cushion s.v. emery n. 3]. 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.
N. Amer. colloq.| 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 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.
| 1949 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. |
II. attrib. and
Comb. 7. attrib., passing into adj. Resembling a strawberry in colour. Also
strawberry pink,
strawberry red,
strawberry roan,
crushed strawberry, etc.
| 1675 Lond. Gaz. No. 1038/4 Stolen..A strawberry Mare. 1690 Pagan Prince xxx. 83 A grave Gentleman with a Strawberry Countenance. 1854 Poultry Chron. I. 263/1 In colour they are mealy or strawberry, the wings barred with a redder tint. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. 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 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. |
8. a. Simple
attrib., as
strawberry bed,
strawberry blossom,
strawberry border,
strawberry box (also
fig.),
strawberry garden,
† strawberry-prick (
= seed),
strawberry root,
strawberry runner,
strawberry seed,
strawberry time.
| 1535 in E. Law Hampton Crt. Pal. (1885) 372 For gathering of 34 bushells of strawberry rot. 1573–80 Tusser Husb. (1878) 41 Wife, into thy garden, and set me a plot, with strawbery rootes. 1619 Depositions Bk., Archd. Essex & Colchester 117 b, Deponit that, in Strabury tyme was twelve moneth, [etc.]. 1681 Grew Musæum i. §7. i. 160 In colour, shape, and bigness like a Strawberry-seed. 1682 Wheler Journ. Greece i. 45 The curious Plants I here took particular notice of, are these:..9. Lychnis, with Flowers, speckled, like the Strawberry-pricks. 1699 Evelyn Kal. Hort., Mar. (ed. 9) 34 You can hardly over-water your Strawberry-Beds in a dry Season. Ibid. Aug. 99 Pluck up Strawberry Runners. a 1700 Evelyn Diary 8 May 1654, A vineyard, planted in strawberry borders. 1787 J. Woodforde Diary 15 Oct. (1926) II. 352, I was very busy this morning in my Garden making some new Strawberry Beds. 1802 Wordsw. Foresight 3 Strawberry blossoms, one and all, We must spare them. 1892 W. B. Yeats Countless 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 (R. 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 (-cream),
strawberry jam,
strawberry jelly,
strawberry shortcake.
| 1523 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 49 For strawbery ale and a posset iiij{supd}. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. ii. v. i. vi. (1624) 327 Strawbury water. 1669 Sir K. Digby's Closet opened 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. 20 June (1904) 28 We had a new dish, ‘Strawberry Short Cake’ very fine indeed. 1846 A. Soyer Cookery 552 Fill it with strawberry ice. 1861 [Trevelyan] Horace at Univ. 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.
| 1688 Lond. Gaz. No. 2310/4 A Strawberry colour'd Gelding above 13 hands. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans IV. 196 An open chaise, drawn by a pair of strawberry coloured horses. 1862 Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxi. (ed. 2) 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. |
9. a. Special comb.:
strawberry bass U.S., the fish
Pomoxys sparoides;
strawberry blite, a herb,
Chenopodium capitatum, with triangular leaves and heads of small flowers followed by fruit resembling a strawberry;
strawberry blond(e) a., applied to hair of a light reddish blond colour; as
n., the colour itself; a person with hair of this colour;
strawberry bush, (
a)
= strawberry shrub; (
b) the shrub
Euonymus americanus, with crimson and scarlet pods;
† strawberry cinquefoil, the genus
Potentilla;
strawberry clover = strawberry trefoil (Prior
Plant.-n. 1863);
† strawberry cockle, some kind of shell-fish;
strawberry comb, a cock's-comb resembling a strawberry;
strawberry crab (see
quot.);
strawberry dish Silver-work (see
quot. 1977);
Strawberry Fields slang [
prob. f. Strawberry Fields Forever, title of a song (1967) by John Lennon and Paul McCartney]
= LSD2;
strawberry finch, the amadavat;
strawberry geranium (see
quot.);
strawberry guava, 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;
strawberry-headed trefoil = strawberry trefoil;
Strawberry Hill Archit., the name of the house in Twickenham bought in 1747 and rebuilt by Horace Walpole after the Gothic style, used
attrib. to designate the style of early Gothic Revivalist architecture inspired and epitomized by this house;
strawberry-mark, a birth-mark or nævus resembling a strawberry;
strawberry pear, the fruit of the W. Indian cactus
Cereus triangularis, or the plant itself (
Treas. Bot. 1866);
strawberry perch U.S. = strawberry bass;
strawberry pot, a large garden pot with pockets in its sides, designed to contain growing strawberry plants;
strawberry shrub U.S. = Calycanthus;
strawberry spinach = strawberry blite;
strawberry tomato U.S., a ground-cherry of the genus
Physalis or its edible fruit;
strawberry tongue (see
quot.);
strawberry tree,
† (
a)
= sense 2; (
b)
= arbutus 1; also
= madroño; (
c)
U.S. = strawberry bush b;
strawberry trefoil,
Trifolium fragiferum;
strawberry vine = sense 2;
strawberry weevil, 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;
strawberry wire, the runner of the strawberry plant;
† strawberry wise, † with = sense 2.
Also, 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.
| 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 Jordan & Gilbert Syn. Fishes N. Amer. 465 Pomoxys sparoides,..Strawberry Bass. 1947 B. W. Dalrymple Panfish 81 You'd think there be Strawberry Bass..in there. |
| 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. App., *Strawberry-blite. 1900 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. I. 290/2 The common Strawberry Blite..has been introduced to the trade as a pot-herb. 1943 Fernald & Kinsey Edible Wild Plants 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. |
| 1884 E. W. 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. |
| 1847 Darlington Amer. Weeds (1860) 135 Calycanthus..*Strawberry-bush. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. (1860) 81 Euonymus Americanus, Strawberry Bush. |
| 1753 Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Pentaphylloides, The erect pentaphylloides, called by authors the *strawberry-cinque-foil. |
| 1713 Petiver Aquat. Anim. Amboinæ 4/2 Red *Strawbery Cockle. 1815 Burrow Elem. Conchol. 195 Cardium Fragum. White Strawberry Cockle. C. Unedo. Strawberry Cockle. |
| 1746 in Poultry Chron. (1855) III. 439 Yellow Dun, low *strawberry comb. |
| 1850 [A. White] Spec. Anim. Brit. Mus. iv. Crustacea 8 Eurynome aspera, *Strawberry Crab. |
| 1941 Burlington Mag. Aug. 68/1 A set of four *strawberry dishes—also silver-gilt, by Paul Crispin, 1734. 1977 Fleming & 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. |
| 1971 Tel. (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. |
| 1880 Bessey Bot. 526 Saxifraga sarmentosa, the so-called *Strawberry Geranium, a fine basket plant from China. |
| 1901 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. III. 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. 1c/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. |
| 1822 Hortus Anglicus II. 271 *Strawberry headed Trefoil. |
| 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. |
| 1847 J. M. Morton Box & Cox (at end), Have you such a thing as a *strawberry mark on your left arm? |
| 1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer 378 *Strawberry Perch... Pomoxys hexacanthus. 1888 Goode Amer. Fishes 69 In Lake Erie, and in Ohio generally, it is the ‘Strawberry Bass’, ‘Strawberry Perch’ or ‘Grass Bass’. |
| 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. |
| 1731 Miller Gard. Dict., Chenopodio-morus; major..commonly call'd *Strawberry Spinage. |
| 1862 M. D. Colt Went to Kansas ix. 133 The *strawberry tomatoes..are indigenous to the soil. 1867 A. Gray Man. Bot. (1874) 382 Physalis Alkekengi. Strawberry Tomato. 1919 E. L. Sturtevant Notes on Edible Plants 432 P. lanceolata..was among the strawberry tomatoes grown at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in 1886. 1969 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. |
| 1876 Dunglison Med. Lex., *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. |
| 14.. Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 584/29 Fragus, a *streberytre. 1548 Turner Names Herbes 16 Arbutus..may be called in english strawbery tree, or an arbute tree. a 1687 Petty Polit. Surv. Irel. (1719) 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 Catalogus Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 25 Euonymus Americanus, (burning bush, strawberry tree). 1838 J. C. Loudon Arboretum & Fruticetum Britannicum 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). 1866 Trans. Illinois Agric. Soc. VI. 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. |
| 1731 Miller Gard. Dict., Trifolium; fragiferum... *Strawberry-Trefoil. |
| 1867 A. J. Wilson Vashti iii, I..pull out grass and weeds from the *strawberry vines. |
| 1884 Ann. Rep. Michigan State Hort. Soc. 1883 155 This *strawberry weevil..was described by Thomas Say. 1929 Auchter & 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, B.C.) 30 May 10/2 Another expense was combating the strawberry weevil. |
| 1601 Holland Pliny xxv. ix. II. 228 marg., 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 Shropsh. Word-bk., Straberry-wires, strawberry-runners. |
| c 1000 ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 136/15 Framen, *streaberiewisan. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 478/2 Strawbery wyse [Winch. MS. strawbyry vyse], fragus. c 1450 M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 177 Tak bugle, streberywyse, mene consond [etc.]. |
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 367/1 A *Straberi wythe, fragus. |
† 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.| 1549 Latimer Ploughers (Arb.) 20 The preachynge of the worde of God vnto the people is called meate... Not strauberies, that come but once a yeare and tary not longe... The people muste haue meate that muste be familier and continuall, and dayly geuen vnto them to fede vpon. Many make a strauberie of it, ministringe it but once a yeare, but such do not thoffice of good prelates. |
| 1566 in Latimer's Serm. (Parker Soc. 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. 1605 F. van W. Mason Author. Ch. (1607) 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.]. 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. 1615 Hieron Dignitie of Preaching 14 That, which old Latimer..once blamed vnder the witty terme of strawbery-preaching. 1648 E. Sparke Shute's Sarah & Hagar Pref. b j b, These are no Strawberry-Sermons, pick'd and cull'd out with long vagaries. |
Hence
† ˈstrawberried ppl. a., marked with a strawberry-mark.
ˈstrawberrying vbl. n., gathering strawberries (in
phr. to go strawberrying).
| 1634 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. 1675 Lond. Gaz. No. 1035/4 Strayed away.., a gray Gelding,..Strawberred in the near Cheak. 1856 Susan Warner Hills of Shatemuc viii, I wonder who'll go strawberrying with them? |