dogberry
Definition of dogberry
1 : any of certain small fruits usually considered inferior or unfit for human consumption (as the chokeberry, prickly wild gooseberry, certain rose hips, or the fruit of the mountain ash); especially : the fruit of the red dogwood
2 : any plant (as certain dogwoods, mountain ash, or yellow clintonia) that bears dogberries
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Origin and Etymology of dogberry
1dog + berry
First Known Use: 1676
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Origin and Etymology of dogberry
from Dogberry, a foolish constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing
First Known Use: 1801
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