blueberrying
/ˈbluˌbɛɹi.ɪŋ//ˈbluːbəɹi.ɪŋ/
blueberrying noun: the act of gathering blueberries. Also the present participle and gerund of blueberry.
Noun
blueberrying (uncountable)
- The act of gathering blueberries.
- The best barrens for blueberrying lay across the harbor.1908, Henry James Smith, Amédée's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1908, page 91
- Most joyously recalled is the blueberrying — a pleasure I had not had since my youthful days. Huge ones they, hanging thick and easy; that night when I shut my eyes I saw blueberries, a dense pattern, like wallpaper.1935, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, University of Wisconsin Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 231
Also used as
blueberrying is also the present participle and gerund of blueberry.
Origin of blueberrying
From blueberry + -ing.
Questions about blueberrying
- What does blueberrying mean?
- Blueberrying means the act of gathering blueberries.
- What part of speech is blueberrying?
- Blueberrying is a noun.
- How do you pronounce blueberrying?
- Blueberrying is pronounced /ˈbluːbəɹi.ɪŋ/ (UK).
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