different between blueberrying vs raspberrying

English

Etymology

blueberry +? -ing

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?blu?b??i.??/, /?blu?b?i.??/
• (Us) IPA^(key): /?blu?b??i.??/

Noun

blueberrying (uncountable)

1. The act of gathering blueberries.
   • 1908, Henry James Smith, Amédée's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company (1908), page 91:

     The best barrens for blueberrying lay across the harbor.

   • 1935, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, University of Wisconsin Press (1991), ?ISBN, page 231:

     Most joyously recalled is the blueberrying — a pleasure I had not had since my youthful days. Huge ones they, hanging thick and easy; that night when I shut my eyes I saw blueberries, a dense pattern, like wallpaper.

   • 2008, Carrie Jones, Love (And Other Uses for Duct Tape), Flux (2008), ?ISBN, page 74:

     No work except for blueberrying in August, crab picking occasionally, and making pine wreaths in December.

Translations

See also

• bilberrying
• blackberrying
• raspberrying

Verb

blueberrying

1. present participle of blueberry

English

Etymology

raspberry +? -ing

Noun

raspberrying (uncountable)

1. The act of gathering raspberries.
   • 1933, American Forests, Volume 39, page 347:

     The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.

   • 1944, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Mainstays of Maine, The Macmillan Company (1944), page 88:

     Sitting down is the secret of good raspberrying. It is also easier on your pants and nerves, by the way. Raspberries call for a sitting posture.

   • 1957, Lura Beam, A Maine Hamlet, Yankee Books (1957), page 138:

     During July and August, church, Sunday School, and prayer meeting returned, and there were strawberrying, swimming, the Pondlily Walk, blueberrying, raspberrying, blackberrying, […]

Translations

See also

• bilberrying
• blackberrying
• blueberrying

Verb

raspberrying

1. present participle of raspberry