different between catcall vs raspberry

English

Etymology 1

cat +? call

Alternative forms

• cat-call (dated)

Noun

catcall (plural catcalls)

1. A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
2. A shout, whistle, or comment of a sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
3. (historical) A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.
   • 1823, The Drama, Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine (page 289)

     At what period was the custom of blowing catcalls at the theatre discontinued?

Translations

Verb

catcall (third-person singular simple present catcalls, present participle catcalling, simple past and past participle catcalled)

1. To make such an exclamation.

Translations

Etymology 2

Short for change availability or type + call.

Noun

catcall (plural catcalls)

1. (programming) In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
   • 1999, Ian Joyner, Objects Unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++? (page 244)

     Java does not let you make members more private than they are in parent classes, so has no catcall problem for changing availability. Thus to avoid catcalls with export problems, you should adopt a once-public, always-public policy.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: räz'br?, IPA^(key): /????zb?i/
• (US) enPR: r?z'b?"r?, IPA^(key): /??æz?b??i/

Etymology 1

From earlier raspis berry, possibly from raspise (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-Latin vinum raspeys, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to rasp (“coarse, rough”), of Germanic origin.

Noun

raspberry (plural raspberries)

1. The plant Rubus idaeus.
2. Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus.
3. The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
4. A red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.

Synonyms

• (obsolete) hindberry, raspis

Meronyms

• (aggregate fruit): drupelet

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (razuber?)

Translations

Adjective

raspberry (not comparable)

1. Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
2. Of a dark pinkish red.

   She wore a raspberry beret — lyrics of Raspberry Beret, by the musician Prince

Translations

Verb

raspberry (third-person singular simple present raspberries, present participle raspberrying, simple past and past participle raspberried)

1. To gather or forage for raspberries.
   • 1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company (1903), page 137:

     […] she stuck burrs in my bed and lead me through the nettle-patch when we were raspberrying, because she knew I did n't know nettles; […]

   • 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, Chapter 37:

     "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."

   • 1944, Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks, G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944), page 129:

     […] Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.

   • 1976, Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward, Newport Press (1976), page 4:

     My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.

   • 1988, Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness, MysteriousPress.com (2011), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying, she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.

See also

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}
• boysenberry
• loganberry
• salmonberry
• tayberry
• thimbleberry
• whitebark raspberry

References

Etymology 2

Cockney rhyming slang, respectively from raspberry tart = fart (though "raspberry" is rarely used for a fart, merely a noise which imitates it), and raspberry ripple = cripple.

Noun

raspberry (plural raspberries)

2. (colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.

   Synonyms: (US) Bronx cheer, razz

3. (derogatory, colloquial) A cripple.

Derived terms

• blow a raspberry

Translations

Verb

raspberry (third-person singular simple present raspberries, present participle raspberrying, simple past and past participle raspberried)

1. (colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.