Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The gathering of blackberries.
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- noun The act of gathering
blackberries . - verb Present participle of
blackberry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A southern italian priest on secondment in northern italy did not know that in the local rural slang 'blackberrying' meant adulterous dalliances, so he innocently mentioned it at a public function to everyone's dismay.
Today... Joanna Bogle 2007
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There is no part of farming that a boy enjoys more than the making of maple sugar; it is better than "blackberrying," and nearly as good as fishing.
New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes
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Africa "blackberrying," so the men called their duty, Tom Fillot, one of their jokers, giving as the reason that the job was "black and berry nasty."
The Black Bar George Manville Fenn 1870
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I think there is no part of farming the boy enjoys more than the making of maple sugar; it is better than "blackberrying," and nearly as good as fishing.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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I think there is no part of farming the boy enjoys more than the making of maple sugar; it is better than "blackberrying," and nearly as good as fishing.
Being a Boy Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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They are fantastic for camping, for blackberrying, for throwing on after a swim, for yomps through the forest and for all those many English summer days that don't turn out to be quite as warm as you hoped.
Archive 2009-04-01 The List Writer 2009
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They are fantastic for camping, for blackberrying, for throwing on after a swim, for yomps through the forest and for all those many English summer days that don't turn out to be quite as warm as you hoped.
Plain sweatshirts made fancy The List Writer 2009
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Your other alternative is to take two months' worth of blackberrying yikes! and invest them in a dedicated e-book reader.
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We went blackberrying yesterday near the river - eighteen feet high bramble thickets with thriving colonies of nettles and thistles lurking under the bramble vines waiting for fresh blood...
Blackberries and summer: an hour of illness forgotten Elizabeth McClung 2008
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A Summer wooded landscape with two girls blackberrying 1897
Archive 2008-06-01 Hermes 2008
mollusque commented on the word blackberrying
Tommy Dockum was more interested than any one else, and mentioned the subject so frequently one day when he went blackberrying with us, that we grew enthusiastic, and told each other what fun it would be to go, for everybody would be there, and it would be the greatest loss to us if we were absent. I thought I had lost my childish fondness for circuses, but it came back redoubled . . .
--Sarah Orne Jewett, 1877, Deephaven
January 28, 2010