raspberrying en · NOUN
Etymology
From raspberry + -ing.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The act of gathering raspberries.
During 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: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 347: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 88:
Relateds
blueberrying · blackberrying · strawberrying · bilberrying
Translations (3)
fi vadelmanpoiminta (act of picking raspberries) · pl zbieranie malin (act of picking raspberries) · cy mafona (act of picking raspberries)