Meaning of Dogberry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pompous, foolish or self-important official.
2. The berry of the dogwood.
3. Clintonia borealis (yellow clintonia)

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Examples

“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’.”

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