raspberry

/ˈɹɑːzb(ə)ɹi/

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Northern England/ˈɹæzbɹi/

raspberry noun: the plant Rubus idaeus.

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Noun (1)

raspberry (plural raspberries)

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

Adjective

raspberry (comparative raspberrier, superlative raspberriest)

Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
- It’s a gorgeous ice cream dream…a generous roll of vanilla shaped like a log…sprinkled with toasted pecan nuts…and filled with an egg-shaped center of the raspberriest raspberry ice cream ever!1941 April 10, Elsie, the Borden Cow [pseudonym], “Good Moos”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume C, number 86, Chicago, Ill., page 21
- Raspberry Flavor JELL-O® BRAND Gelatin now tastes even raspberrier.1979 June, Jell-O, “Now there’s even more magic in a Jell-O® Gelatin Rainbow Cake”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 57, number 6, Des Moines, Ia.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, page 135
Of a dark pinkish red.
- She wore a raspberry beret / The kind you find in a second hand store1985, Prince, “Raspberry Beret”, in Around the World in a Day, performed by Prince and the Revolution

Verb (1)

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

To gather or forage for raspberries.
- […] 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; […]1903, M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich, Little, Brown, and Company, published 1903, page 137
- "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 37, in Anne's House of Dreams

Noun (2)

raspberry (plural raspberries)

(colloquial) A noise intended to imitate a fart, 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 (often a form of tickling) used humorously or to express derision.
- Of the announcement, Osborne said: "They have spent a hundred billion pounds of public money and they've got a massive raspberry from everyone as far as I can see. As a PR exercise, it's been an object lesson in how not to make a government announcement."2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8
Synonyms:

Bronx cheer, razz
(colloquial, derogatory) A physically disabled person.

Verb (2)

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

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

Proper noun capitalized: Raspberry

Raspberry (countable and uncountable, plural Raspberrys)

A surname.
An unincorporated community in Pope County, Arkansas, United States.
A community in West Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada.

raspberry meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

raspberry in Hindi

fruit: रसभरी rasabhrī

raspberry in Tamil

fruit: ராஸ்பெர்ரி rāsperri

raspberry in Marathi

रास्पबेरी, रसबेरी, रास्पबॅरी

raspberry in Urdu

plant: تُوت الارض

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raspberry in Bengali: রাসবেরি ফল, ঠাট্টাসূচক শব্দ
raspberry in Telugu: రాస్ప్బెర్రీ, రాస్్బెర్రీ
raspberry in Malayalam: പരിഹാസസൂചകമായ ചൂളമടി
raspberry in Kannada: ರಾಸ್ಪ್ಬೆರಿ, ರಾಸ್್ಬೆರಿ, ರಾಸ್ಪ್ಬೆರ್ರಿ
raspberry in Punjabi: ਰਸਬੇਰੀ, ਰਾਸਬੇਰੀ, ਰਸਬਰੀ
raspberry in Gujarati: રાસબેરિંગ, રાસબેરીંગ
raspberry in Odia: ରାସ୍ପବେରୀ, ରାସ୍ପବେରି, ରାସ୍ପବେରିଙ୍ଗ
raspberry in Assamese: জুটুলিপকা গছ zutulipoka gos, জুটুলিপকা zutulipoka
raspberry in Nepali: रास्पबेरी, रसबेरी, रासबेरी
raspberry in Pashto: رازبېري rāzberi
raspberry in Tagalog: sampinit, prambuwesas
raspberry in Arabic: فْرَامْبْوَاز frāmbwāz
raspberry in Indonesian: frambos, rasberi
raspberry in Persian: تمشک tamešk
raspberry in Thai: แรสเบอร์รี rɛ́ɛs-bəə-rîi
raspberry in Vietnamese: mâm xôi

Examples of raspberry in a sentence

Pluck the easiest, tastiest, raspberriest raspberry around.1999 June/July, “Contents”, in Garden Design, volume 18, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Meigher Communications, →ISSN, page 9:
Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying, and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.1944, Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks, G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1944...
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.1976, Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward, Newport Press (1976), page 4
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.1988, Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness, MysteriousPress.com, published 2011, →ISBN:

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Synonyms of raspberry

Forms of raspberry

Noun
plural	raspberries
Adjective
comparative	raspberrier
superlative	raspberriest
Verb
third-person singular present	raspberries
present participle	raspberrying
past participle	raspberried
past	raspberried
Proper noun
plural	Raspberrys

Plural of raspberry: raspberries

Origin of raspberry

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.

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

Variant of Rasberry.

Words formed from raspberry

Phrases with raspberry

Questions about raspberry

What does raspberry mean?: Raspberry means the plant Rubus idaeus.
What is raspberry in Hindi?: Raspberry in Hindi is रसभरी (rasabhrī). See Raspberry meaning in Hindi.
How do you use raspberry in a sentence?: Pluck the easiest, tastiest, raspberriest raspberry around.
What part of speech is raspberry?: Raspberry can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce raspberry?: Raspberry is pronounced /ˈɹɑːzb(ə)ɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of raspberry?: The plural of raspberry is raspberries.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: raspberry (page history and authors); Raspberry (page history and authors); raspberry (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raspberry (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); raspberry (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raspberry (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); raspberry (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raspberry (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raspberry (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raspberry (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); raspberry (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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