Definitions for dogberries

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dogberries dog·ber·ry

Spelling: [dawg-ber-ee, -buh-ree, dog-]

IPA: /ˈdɔgˌbɛr i, -bə ri, ˈdɒg-/

Dogberries is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 499 anagrams from letters in dogberries (bdeegiorrs).

Definitions for dogberries

noun

1. the berry or fruit of any of various plants, as the European dogwood, Cornus sanguinea, the chokeberry, Aronia arbutifolia, or the mountain ash, Sorbus americana.
2. the plant itself.
3. any of several plants, especially the dog rose, bearberry, and guelder rose.
4. a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
5. any foolish, blundering, or stupid official.

Origin of dogberries

First recorded in 1545-55; dog + berry

Examples for dogberries

It is an important examination, and therefore, like dogberry, we must spare no wisdom.

He wished to be like dogberry and have everything handsome about him.

Like dogberry, these things are to him but the gift of God; and he knows them at his birth.

Here is an ignoramus, and dogberry is placed on the judge's bench.

As dogberry would put it, “It is most tolerable and not to be endured.”

I meant no comparisons; comparisons are odorous, saith dogberry.

Who that has once seen Jefferson's dogberry, can ever forget it?

Quite in the manner of dogberry, he answers his own questions.

As such, however, he more resembled one of dogberry's watch.

It is just what the local dogberry and the scratch jury happen to find.