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whistleberries

whistleberries noun: baked beans.

Noun

whistleberries pl (plural only)

  1. (US, dated, plural, plural-only, slang) baked beans
    • “Hambone, how's for chuck?”
      Hambone removed pipe from mouth, slowly. “Wal, I reckon I still got a few whistleberries left. Some sonofabitch stew mabbe. A few shot biscuits.”1951, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Riders of Judgment, Second, published 2014, →ISBN

Origin of whistleberries

From whistle + berries, a reference to the flatulence they cause.

Questions about whistleberries

What does whistleberries mean?
Whistleberries means baked beans.
What part of speech is whistleberries?
Whistleberries is a noun.

Words near whistleberries in the dictionary

  1. whistle-stopped
  2. whistle-stopping
  3. whistle-stops
  4. whistle-to-whistle
  5. whistleable
  6. whistleberries
  7. whistleblew
  8. whistleblow
  9. whistleblower
  10. whistleblowers
  11. whistleblowing

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