huckleberry
UK/ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/US/ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/
huckleberry noun: a small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
Noun
huckleberry (plural 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...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
- 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.”1967, Richard Boyd Hauck, The Literary Content of the New York Spirit of the Times, 1831-1856, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, page 88
- A person of little consequence.
- 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.1999, Paul Lieberstein, "De-Kahnstructing Henry" (King of the Hill TV episode
- The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
- I'm your huckleberry.
Verb
huckleberry (third-person singular simple present huckleberries, present participle huckleberrying, simple past and past participle huckleberried)
- To pick huckleberries.
Forms of huckleberry
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | huckleberries |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | huckleberries |
| present participle | huckleberrying |
| past participle | huckleberried |
| past | huckleberried |
Origin of huckleberry
Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.
Words formed from huckleberry
- above one's huckleberry
- bear huckleberry
- black huckleberry
- blue huckleberry
- box huckleberry
- bush huckleberry
- California huckleberry
- dwarf huckleberry
- evergreen huckleberry
- fool's huckleberry
- garden huckleberry
- hairy-twig huckleberry
- he-huckleberry
- highbush huckleberry
- huckleberry above a persimmon
- huckleberry above one's persimmon
- huckleberry oak
- I'm your huckleberry
- red huckleberry
- squaw huckleberry
- tree huckleberry
- winter huckleberry
- woolly huckleberry
Phrases with huckleberry
Questions about huckleberry
- What does huckleberry mean?
- Huckleberry means a small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
- What part of speech is huckleberry?
- Huckleberry can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce huckleberry?
- Huckleberry is pronounced /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/ (US).
- What is the plural of huckleberry?
- The plural of huckleberry is huckleberries.
Words near huckleberry in the dictionary
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