English

Noun

Dogberry ‎(plural Dogberries)

1. A pompous, foolish or self-important official. [from 19th c.]
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 333:

     It would be interesting to know how many village Dogberries there were like Thomas Law, the constable of Quendon, Essex, whose reaction in 1651 on being informed of a robbery was to call on the astrologer, William Hills, ‘with an intent to hear what he might say, so that he might make his search accordingly’.

English

Noun

dogberry ‎(plural dogberries)

1. The berry of the dogwood.
2. Clintonia borealis

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References

• dogberry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913