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dogberry

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dogberry¹

Where it comes from

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”).

noun dogberries

  1. The berry of the dogwood.
  2. Clintonia borealis (yellow clintonia)

Dogberry²

  • /ˈdɒɡbəɹi/ UK
  • /ˈdɔɡˌbɛɹi/ US
  • /ˈdɑɡˌbɛɹi/ US

Where it comes from

From Dogberry, the name of a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1600).

noun Dogberries

  1. A pompous, foolish or self-important official. It would be interesting to know how many village Dogberries there were like Thomas Law, the constable of Quendon, Essex, whose reaction in 1651 on being informed of a robbery was to call on the astrologer, William Hills, ‘with an intent to hear what he might say, so that he might make his search acc

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noun the berry of the dogwood

Русскийкизи́л kizíl

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@misc{dogberry_2026,
  title = {dogberry},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dogberry},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}