to blackberry
- verb
- /ˈblækˌbɛri/
- Children love to blackberry in the countryside, gathering sweet fruit for pies.
Examples
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Last weekend, they spent hours blackberrying along the hedgerows, enjoying the warm sun.
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So I'm just having some frozen blackberries in here, so probably just like a pretty large handful.
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She and Hamish have gone blackberrying.
Fiction book (1990) -
During the summer, we often go blackberry picking in the nearby woods.
Synonyms
To pick small fruits from plants or bushes
Compounds
A garden plant with orange flowers and seed pods that open to show seeds like blackberries
A plant with long stems that grow along the ground and produce black berries
A stiff bush that makes blackberries and grows in sandy soil in the eastern United States
A low spiny bush that grows in wet ground and has small black berries you can eat
A wild bush that produces long black berries and grows in western North America
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Etymology
Blackberry as a verb comes from the noun and simply means 'to pick' or gather the dark berries from the bush, so to blackberry is to go and collect those fruits.