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cackleberry

UK/ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/

cackleberry noun: an egg.

Noun

cackleberry (plural cackleberries)

  1. (archaic, slang) An egg.
    • He had returned with a chipped bowl full of hen's eggs. ‘Nice fresh cackleberries for your mum and dad.’1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 254
    • Kestrels they hunted down for their clusters of mottled cackleberries.2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 218

Synonyms of cackleberry

Forms of cackleberry

pluralcackleberries

Origin of cackleberry

From cackle + berry, from the sound of a hen and the rounded shape of an egg.

Questions about cackleberry

What does cackleberry mean?
Cackleberry means an egg.
What part of speech is cackleberry?
Cackleberry is a noun.
How do you pronounce cackleberry?
Cackleberry is pronounced /ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/ (UK).
What is the plural of cackleberry?
The plural of cackleberry is cackleberries.

Words near cackleberry in the dictionary

  1. cackle-bladder
  2. cackle-bladders
  3. cackle-fart
  4. cackle-farts
  5. cackleberries
  6. cackleberry
  7. cackled
  8. cackler
  9. cacklers
  10. cackles
  11. cackleth

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