Envy vs Raspberry - What's the difference?
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Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:No bliss enjoyed by us excites his envy more.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Envy , to which the ignoble mind's a slave, / Is emulation in the learned or brave.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracydistilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
*1983 , (Stanley Rosen), Plato’s Sophist , p.66:
*:Theodorus assures Socrates that no envy will prevent the Stranger from responding
An object of envious notice or feeling.
* (1800-1859)
*:This constitution in former days used to be the envy of the world.
(lb) Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
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*:Syre said la?celot vnto Arthur by this crye that ye haue made ye wyll put vs that ben aboute yow in grete Ieopardy / for there be many Knyghtes that haue grete enuye to vs / therfore whan we shal mete at the daye of Iustes there wille be hard skyfte amonge vs
*1598 , (William Shakespeare), :
*:But let me tell the World, / If he out-liue the enuie of this day, / England did neuer owe so sweet a hope, / So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse.
(lb) Emulation; rivalry.
* (1586-c.1639)
*:Such as cleanliness and decency / Prompt to a virtuous envy .
(lb) Public odium; ill repute.
*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
*:to lay the envy of the war upon Cicero
To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions.
(obsolete) To have envious feelings (at).
*, II.3.3:
*Jeremy Taylor:
(obsolete) To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
(obsolete) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
*Shakespeare:
(obsolete) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
* J. Fletcher
(obsolete) To hate.
(obsolete) To emulate.
The plant Rubus idaeus .
Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus .
The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
A (colour) red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
Of a dark pinkish red.
To gather or forage for .
* 1903 , M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich , Little, Brown, and Company (1903),
* 1917 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams , Chapter 37:
* 1944 , Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks , G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944),
* 1976 , Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward , Newport Press (1976),
* 1988 , Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness , MysteriousPress.com (2011), ISBN 9781453232521,
(pejorative, colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.
(colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
Cockney rhyming slang
As nouns the difference between envy and raspberry
is that envy is resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions) while raspberry is the plant rubus idaeus or raspberry can be (pejorative|colloquial) a noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.As verbs the difference between envy and raspberry
is that envy is to feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions while raspberry is to gather or forage for or raspberry can be (colloquial) to make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.As an adjective raspberry is
containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.envy
English
Noun
Verb
(en-verb)- I do not envy at their wealth, titles, offices;let me live quiet and at ease.
- Who would envy at the prosperity of the wicked?
- But that sweet Cordiall, which can restore / A loue-sick hart, she did to him enuy […].
- He hasenvied against the people.
- If I make a lie / To gain your love and envy my best mistress, / Put me against a wall.
- (Marlowe)
- (Spenser)
raspberry
English
(wikipedia raspberry)Etymology 1
From earlier raspis berry'', possibly from ''raspise'' (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-(etyl) ''vinum raspeys , of uncertain origin.Noun
(raspberries)Derived terms
* black raspberry * raspberry vinegar * Scotland raspberrySynonyms
* (obsolete) hindberryAdjective
(-)- She wore a raspberry beret'' — lyrics of ''Raspberry Beret , by the musician
Verb
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- "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
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- Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying , and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
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- My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
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- In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying , she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.
