huckleberry
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huckleberry
- /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/ US
- /ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/ UK
Where it comes from
Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.
noun huckleberries
- A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big cle
- A shrub growing this fruit.
- A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon. Porter preferred prose to poetry. Prose seemed to him to be a concrete, practical form of expression. But poetry, as he informed a poet who signed his name “Evergreen,” was “a huckleberry beyond us.”
- A person of little consequence. 1999, Paul Lieberstein, "De-Kahnstructing Henry" (King of the Hill TV episode You got such a bug in your bonnet about phones? Check this out. I call France on this phone whenever I want. France, Europe, huckleberry.
- The person one is looking for; the right person for the job. I'm your huckleberry.
verb huckleberries · huckleberrying · huckleberried
- To pick huckleberries.
Translations
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noun fruit — see also buckberry
| Español | arándano americano |
|---|---|
| Português | mirtilo americano |
| Français | myrtille américaine |
| Deutsch | Heidelbeere |
| Italiano | mirtillo americano |
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