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dingleberries

dingleberries is the plural of dingleberry.

Meaning of dingleberry

Noun

dingleberry (plural dingleberries)

  1. Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the southern mountain cranberry.
    • dingleberries, or mountain-cranberries (Huge'ria, syn. Oxycoccoi'des), cranberries (Oxycoc'cus)1937, US Government Printing Office, Range Plant Handbook
    Synonyms:
    arando, bearberry
  2. (derogatory, slang) A stupid or foolish person.
    Synonyms:
    idiot, moron
  3. (derogatory, slang) Dried fecal matter adhering to anal hair.
    Synonyms:
    dag, dags
  4. (dated) Any residual irregularity following processing.
    • The contour of the root bead is very irregular and solidified drops of metal, "cherries" or "dingleberries," extend therefrom evidencing burn-throughs.1951, Charles Diehl, Method for Welding a Joint, US Patent 2747065, page 3

Questions about dingleberries

What is dingleberries the plural of?
Dingleberries is the plural of dingleberry.

Words near dingleberries in the dictionary

  1. dingle
  2. Dingle Bay
  3. dingle stick
  4. dingle sticks
  5. dingle-dangle
  6. dingleberries
  7. dingleberry
  8. dinglehopper
  9. dinglehoppers
  10. dingles
  11. dingless

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