Crossword clues for dogberry
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dogberry \Dog"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.)
The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry.
--Dr.
Prior.
Dogberry tree (Bot.), the dogwood.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) The berry of the dogwood. 2 (taxlink Clintonia borealis species noshow=1)
Wikipedia
Dogberry is a character created by William Shakespeare for his play, Much Ado About Nothing. He is described by The Nuttall Encyclopædia as a "self-satisfied night constable" with an inflated view of his own importance as the leader of a group of comically bumbling police watchmen. Dogberry is notable for his numerous malapropisms, which sometimes are referred to as "dogberryisms" after him. The Dogberry character was created for William Kempe, who played comic roles in Shakespeare's theatre company the Lord Chamberlain's Men.
Usage examples of "dogberry".
Their chief is Dogberry, epitome of the cowardly policeman who is willing to make an arrest only if there is no risk in it.
Reading and writing never came by nature, as Dogberry would say, to any man fighting for Secession.
To read and write were still rare accomplishments in the country, and Dogberry expressed a common notion when he said reading and writing come by nature.
A policeman sauntered near with his large lantern--a superior sort of Dogberry, but very young, as are most of the policemen in Mexico, save the Rurales, that splendid company of highwaymen whom Diaz bought over from being bandits to be the guardians of the peace.
As I cannot, like Dogberry, find it in my heart to bestow all my tediousness upon the reader, I will not go on to bore him with a minute detail of all the discoveries and proceedings of this and the following day.
Dogberries and grandmothers are occasionally found upon the bench, dispensing their honest but destructive platitudes, and their Malaprop constructions of commercial law, to juries of astounded merchants.
Within the immense space which stretches between Dogberry or Launcelot Gobbo and Imogen or Cordelia, lies the Shakespearian world.
Recipes for Damper Devils, Fried Bawks, Dogberry Wine and Peas and Melts.
After a hundred feet the trail went steep and wet, and he slid through wild angelica stalks and billows of dogberry.