different between blackberrying vs blackberry

English

Etymology

blackberry +? -ing

Noun

blackberrying (uncountable)

1. The act of gathering blackberries.
   • 1859, Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, Hurst and Blackett (1859), page 212:

     And the thought of that old time came upon me like a flood — the winter games at the Cedars — the blackberrying and bilberrying upon the sunshiny summer moors […]

   • 1884, Hesba Stretton, Carola, The Religious Tract Society (1884), page 104:

     When the harvest was over, the nutting and the blackberrying began; […]

   • 1948, Brian Lunn, Switchback: An Autobiography, Eyre & Spottiswoode (1948), page 20:

     At that time there were no built-up areas round Harrow, and during one autumn we gathered enough blackberries for twenty-eight pounds of jam. I enjoyed the blackberrying, but I did not enjoy the walks, which averaged about five miles a day and might be over seven.

   • 1993, Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (1995), ?ISBN, page 230:

     In the days of Queen Anne, Dick explains, dissenting sects like the Presbyterians were under a ban and had to educate their children in the fields, behind the blackberry hedges, so in the blackberrying season, the children's lips and cheeks were stained black with the fruit.

Translations

See also

• bilberrying
• blueberrying
• raspberrying

Verb

blackberrying

1. present participle of blackberry

English

Etymology

From Middle English blakberie, blakeberie (“brambleberry”), from Old English blacu ber?e, blæcber?e (attested in plural blaca ber?an, equivalent to black +? berry.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?blækb??i/, /?blækb?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?blækbe?i/

Noun

blackberry (plural blackberries)

1. A fruit-bearing shrub of the species Rubus fruticosus and some hybrids.

   Synonyms: bramble, brambleberry

2. The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets.

   Synonyms: bramble, brambleberry

3. (Britain, dialectal) The blackcurrant.

Derived terms

• plenty as blackberries

Translations

Verb

blackberry (third-person singular simple present blackberries, present participle blackberrying, simple past and past participle blackberried)

1. To gather or forage for blackberries.
   • 1977, Howard Frank Mosher, Disappearances, Mariner Books (2006), ?ISBN, page 111:

     My mother and Cordelia were blackberrying along the woods edge of a nearby meadow.

   • 2001, Thomas Keneally, Victim of the Aurora, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), ?ISBN, page 72:

     My wife and children were blackberrying at the end of the garden and I was simply reading.

   • 2004, Janet Bord, The Traveller's Guide to Fairy Sites: The Landscape and Folklore of Fairyland In England, Wales And Scotland, Gothic Image (2004), ?ISBN, page 48:

     Another instance of someone who is blackberrying and sees fairies can be found at Kingheriot Farm (South-West Wales: Pembrokeshire): maybe gathering berries puts the percipient into a relaxed or dissociated frame of mind, more conducive to being able to see things that one would perhaps not normally be able to see.

Derived terms

• blackberrying

Translations

Further reading

• blackberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rubus fruticosus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies