Definition of Dogberry. Meaning of Dogberry. Synonyms of Dogberry

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Definition of Dogberry

Dogberry
Dogberry Dog"ber`ry, n. (Bot.) The berry of the dogwood; -- called also dogcherry. --Dr. Prior. Dogberry tree (Bot.), the dogwood.

Meaning of Dogberry from wikipedia

- Dogberry is a character created by William Shakespeare for his play Much Ado About Nothing. The Nuttall Encyclopædia describes him as a "self-satisfied...
- malapropism (/ˈmæləprɒpɪzəm/; also called a malaprop, acyrologia or Dogberryism) is the incorrect use of a word in place of a word with a similar sound...
- waiting-gentlewoman attendant on Hero Dogberry, the constable in charge of Messina's night watch Verges, the Headborough, Dogberry's partner Friar Francis, a priest...
- morning, Dogberry attempts to have Leonato interrogate the prisoners. However, a hurried Leonato is unable to decipher what the bumbling Dogberry is trying...
- secondary name as the hound's tree, while the fruits came to be known as "dogberries" or "houndberries" (the latter a name also for the berries of black nightshade...
- (August 17, 1783 – July 13, 1835), also known by his pen name Obadiah Dogberry, Esq., was a 19th-century American newspaper editor. He was one of the...
- Theatre in London. In 2007–08 he has appeared at the National Theatre as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing alongside Zoe Wanamaker, and as Hjalmar Johansen...
- comic actor Will Kempe pla**** the servant Peter in Romeo and Juliet and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, among other characters. He was replaced around...
- ability of pitch to contaminate those in contact with it is mentioned by Dogberry, a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, and the same point...
- for the 1976 Stratford season, playing Duke of Cornwall in King Lear; Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing; Polixenes in The Winter's Tale; and Banquo in...