strawberry

They went to pick strawberries today.

The sweet, usually red, edible fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.

She has the best strawberry patch I've ever seen.

He told his father, and said it would be just suitable work for him to run about fields and woods amongst the strawberry hills after a flock of hares, and now and then lie down and take a nap on some sunny hill.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 170:

Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).

strawberry:

A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.

strawberry marks

I have stretch marks and strawberry legs [follicles or blocked pores that appear as black dots]^([sic]); discoloration all over my body.

2024 February 20, Fiona Vera-Gray, quoting Almina, “‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(rare) Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).

Come home and see her mouth on the dopeman's dick / Strawberry, just look and you'll see her

1987, “Dope Man”, in N.W.A. and the Posse, performed by N.W.A:

[…] infamous in Los Angeles through media reports: the crack houses and "strawberries" (women who exchange sex for crack) […]

1992, Kathleen Boyle, Homeless crack cocaine abusers, page 40:

I'm makin mo' deals than a strawberry might
I'll lick your clit, if you suck my pipe

1995, B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta (lyrics and music), “Compton Hoe”, in Real Brothas:

The desperate addiction associated with the drug has made "strawberries" — prostitutes who work for crack — fixtures of the […]

1997, Peter Collier, David Horowitz, The Race Card, page 91:

(US, slang) A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.

en-noun

strawberry (countable and uncountable, plural strawberries)

barren strawberry

Potentilla sterilis or Waldsteinia fragarioides

→ Bengali: স্ট্রবেরি (sṭroberi)

→ Chichewa: sitiroberi

→ Gujarati: સ્ટ્રોબેરી (sṭroberī)

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→ Hindi: स्ट्रॉबेरी (sṭrŏberī)

→ Hindi: स्ट्रॉबेरी (sṭrŏberī)

→ Indonesian: stroberi

→ Kannada: ಸ್ಟ್ರಾಬೆರಿ (sṭrāberi)

→ Kashubian: stroberi (Canada, United States)

ໝາກສະຕໍເບີຣີ

→ Lao: ໝາກສະຕໍເບີຣີ (māk sa tǭ bœ̄ rī)

→ Lao: ໝາກສະຕໍເບີຣີ (māk sa tǭ bœ̄ rī)

→ Malay: strawberi

สตรอว์เบอร์รี

→ Thai: สตรอว์เบอร์รี (sà-dtrɔɔ-bəə-rîi)

/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/

/ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-
Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *strew-der.
Proto-Germanic *strawą
Proto-West Germanic *strau
Old English strēaw
Proto-Germanic *bazją
Proto-West Germanic *baʀi
Old English berġe
Old English strēawberġe
Middle English strawbery
English strawberry
From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry.


strawberry

I'd like a large strawberry shake.

We sing you a song of the strawberriest Strawberry Ice Cream on earth.

1941 May 8, Chicago Daily Tribune, volume C, number 110, page 8:

At any rate, you will agree with me that this is the “strawberriest tastin’ ” pie that you’ve ever tasted.

1948 May 5, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 100, number 243, St. Louis, Mo., page 3D:

Sixty seconds of boiling, and you’ll be admiring the strawberriest strawberry jam you ever tasted.

1961 June, McCall’s, volume LXXXVIII, number 9, page 47:

Fraser Recorded in Scotland in mid-1100s as de Frisselle, de Freseliere, de Fresel, as if from a place in France, and Sir Simon F— (executed 1306) is referred to as Simond Frysel; first element ?‘ash tree’ of, the –er ?to make it ‘strawberrier’ – a pun on the three silver cinquefoils or fraises in their armorials.

1967, Basil Cottle, The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames, Penguin Books, published 1969, page 109:

With at least 26 berries like these in every jar like this, how must Kraft Pure Strawberry Preserves taste? The strawberriest best!

1968 March, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume LXXXV, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 122:

And your strawberry ice cream can be the strawberriest and your peach ice cream the peachiest.

1973, Glenn Andrews, Impromptu Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 216:

lessons exist because frozen strawberries in store are easier to pick but wild strawberries taste strawberrier.

1975 fall, sue ellen farmer, The Student, page thirty-seven, column 2:

My strawberriest of strawberry sauces was simply strawberries, whirred until chunky in the blender, then spooned over vanilla ice cream (or, in this case, low-fat ice milk).

1978, Barbara [Halloran] Gibbons, The International Slim Gourmet Cookbook, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 324:

Now Jell-O(BRAND)® Strawberry Flavor Gelatin tastes even Strawberrier.

When used to sweeten out-of-season California strawberries, the berries are not only sweeter but “strawberrier,” with a flavor more like home-grown or field-ripened fruit.

1982, Barbara [Halloran] Gibbons, Slim Gourmet Sweets and Treats, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 11:

Kiwi, Kiwi, chirping bright / In the forests of the night / Only a Kiwi could be merrier / About shortcake so strawberrier!

1998, Les Fox, Sue Fox, The Beanie Baby Handbook, West Highland Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 161:

It occurred to me when I was last making the strawberries in dark syrup from How to Eat that there was no reason why I couldn’t use the balsamic vinegar – which provides the darkness and really does seem to make the strawberries strawberrier – when making jam.

2000, Nigella Lawson, How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking, London: Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 347:

It’s the strawberriest shortcake ever.

Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, strawberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.

2005, Rowan Clifford, Rodeo Ron and His Milkshake Cows, Borzoi Books, →ISBN:

“The strawberriest ice cream I have ever tasted!” was the verdict of my daughter Lindsay.

2009, Annette Yates, Ice Cream Made Easy: Homemade Recipes for Ice Cream Machines, Right Way, →ISBN, page 39:

Mind you, I have to admit they were three of the strawberriest looking strawberries I have ever seen.

2011, Hartley Pool, Stranger in Taiwan, Revenge Ink, →ISBN, page 77:

It was the strawberriest strawberry ever.

2013, Caroline Green, Hold Your Breath, Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 125:

HANNAH SAYS: “Wow, these are incredibly juicy. These are the strawberriest things in the world. They’re more strawberry[-]ish than actual strawberries. They’re incredible!”

2013 January, Front, number 177, page 38:

Right now, strawberries are their strawberriest.

2022 June 9, Daniel Neman, “Strawberry spectacular”, in Hartford Courant, volume CLXXXVI, section 4, page 4, column 1:

Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

ethyl methylphenylglycidate
ethyl methylphenylglycidate

Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.

The strawberry lipstick matched his outfit.

They are, at once, beautiful and curious, with their translucent white skin and strawberriest blond hair, looking like a group of Wagner’s Valkyrie lost in a Puccini opera.

2006, Ida Liberkowski, Cynthia Malizia, Along the Amalfi Drive, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 282:

Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.

en-adj

strawberry (comparative strawberrier, superlative strawberriest)

strawberrier (comparative)
strawberriest (superlative)

/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/

/ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/


strawberry

We strawberried in Michigan woods with our fat nanny, and in spring we gathered sand dollars on Daytona, passed smiling into Kodachrome.

1994, New England Review, volume 16, page 35:

My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.

1986, Les Whitten, Sometimes a Hero, page 352:

(intransitive) To turn a dark pinkish-red.

en-verb

strawberry (third-person singular simple present strawberries, present participle strawberrying, simple past and past participle strawberried)

strawberries (present singular third-person)
strawberrying (participle present)
strawberried (participle past)
strawberried (past)

/ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/

/ˈstɹɑˌbɛɹi/