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plenty as blackberries

plenty as blackberries adjective: very plentiful, very abundant.

Adjective

plenty as blackberries (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, simile) Very plentiful, very abundant.
    • Mr. [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, your reason? Were this pressed hard upon you, you would probably with [John] Falstaff exclaim, "If reasons were as plenty as black-berries, I would not give you one upon compulsion!"1938, Newman Ivey White, “Queen Mab [A Radical Seeks Shelter (William Clark’s Reply to … Queen Mab, 1821)]”, in The Unextinguished Hearth: Shelley and His Contemporary Critics, Durham, N.C.: Duke...

Questions about plenty as blackberries

What does plenty as blackberries mean?
Plenty as blackberries means very plentiful, very abundant.
What part of speech is plenty as blackberries?
Plenty as blackberries is an adjective.

Words near plenty as blackberries in the dictionary

  1. plentily
  2. plentiness
  3. plentitude
  4. plentitudes
  5. plenty
  6. plenty as blackberries
  7. plenty to go around
  8. plenty's horn
  9. plentya
  10. plentyful
  11. Plentywood

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