noun
Meaning 1
The berry of the dogwood.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
dogberry
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdɒɡbəɹi/
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US: /ˈdɔɡˌbɛɹi/
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US: /ˈdɑɡˌbɛɹi/
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CMU ARPABET: D AO1 G B EH2 R IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Clintonia borealis (yellow clintonia)
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noun
Meaning 3
A pompous, foolish or self-important official.
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History
Etymology
See dogwood and berry. Compare also dog rose. Compare German Hundbeere (“bittersweet”), Ancient Greek κυνόσβατος (kunósbatos, “evergreen rose”), Lithuanian šùnobelė (“buckthorn”), Italian mela canina (“mandrake”).
From Dogberry, the name of a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1600).
Across languages
Translations
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: thënukël — the berry of the dogwood
- Polish: dereń — the berry of the dogwood
- Russian: кизи́л (kizíl) — the berry of the dogwood