strawberry

adj

Etymology: 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 strawberie English strawberry From Middle English strawberie, strawbery, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry. Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are: # from the fact that wild strawberries grow on straw-like runners (compare Norwegian stråbær, denoting cranberries, which grow in a similar way); # from the practice, still common in parts of Europe, of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk.

1. Containing or having the flavor of strawberries.

   “I'd like a large strawberry shake.”

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

2. Flavored with ethyl methylphenylglycidate, an artificial compound which is said to resemble the taste of strawberries.
3. Of a color similar to the color of strawberry-flavoured products.

   “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.”

name

1. A census-designated place in Marin County, California, United States.
2. A census-designated place in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
3. An unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California, United States.
4. A surname

noun

Etymology: 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 strawberie English strawberry From Middle English strawberie, strawbery, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry. Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are: # from the fact that wild strawberries grow on straw-like runners (compare Norwegian stråbær, denoting cranberries, which grow in a similar way); # from the practice, still common in parts of Europe, of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk.

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

   “They went to pick strawberries today.”

   “Communication is a kind of beauty, he said – and “beauty manifests itself from the noun itself, without strawberries on the cake.””

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

   “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.”

3. The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
4. A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
5. Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).

   “strawberry marks”

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

6. A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.

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

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

7. A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.

   “When Barey decided in 2020 to pursue porn full-time, she did not imagine that at 28 she would spend more time hunched over a desk – not in the fun way – making flow charts, scheduling Zoom calls, and sending pitch decks. “I’m at my happiest when I’m making a video like putting a strawberry in my butt and pushing it out,” she says. “Now I’m on calls all day and I have tech neck.””

verb

Etymology: 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 strawberie English strawberry From Middle English strawberie, strawbery, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry. Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are: # from the fact that wild strawberries grow on straw-like runners (compare Norwegian stråbær, denoting cranberries, which grow in a similar way); # from the practice, still common in parts of Europe, of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk.

1. To gather strawberries.

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

2. To turn a dark pinkish-red.

   “My hips and elbows were strawberrying painfully.”