Meanings
- uncountableThe act of gathering raspberries.
Sitting down is the secret of good raspberrying. It is also easier on your pants and nerves, by the way. Raspberries call for a sitting posture.
1944, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Mainstays of Maine, The Macmillan Company, published 1944, page 882 more examples
The thought of July raspberrying brings recollections of heat, bugs, thorns, dead brush, nettles, and great stalks of wild tiger lilies scattered among the brambles.
1933, American Forests, volume 39, page 347During July and August, church, Sunday School, and prayer meeting returned, and there were strawberrying, swimming, the Pondlily Walk, blueberrying, raspberrying, blackberrying, […]
1957, Lura Beam, A Maine Hamlet, Yankee Books, page 138
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of raspberry
Origin
Translations
Finnish vadelmanpoiminta
- vadelmanpoimintaact of picking raspberries
Polish zbieranie malin
- zbieranie malinact of picking raspberries
Welsh mafona
- mafonaact of picking raspberries
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