To Go A-Blackberrying

Author / Editor
Ross, Alan S. C.

Title
To Go A-Blackberrying

Published
Notes and Queries 218 (1973): 284-85.

Description
Comments on the etymology of a modern and a medieval (PardT 6.406) instance of the figurative use of the phrase to go "a blackberrying."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Pardoner and His Tale