whortle

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whortle

/ˈwɝtl̩/ US
/ˈʍɝtl̩/ US

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From Middle English hurtil, hurtle, from Old English horte (“whortleberry”) (plural hortan) but of unknown ultimate origin.

noun whortles

archaic The whortleberry or bilberry. […] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.

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@misc{whortle_2026,
  title = {whortle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whortle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}