huckleberryn.

/ˈhʌk(ə)lbɛri/

Etymology: Conjectured to be a corruption of hurtleberry n., whortleberry n.

U.S.

1. The fruit and plant of species of Gaylussacia (N.O. Vacciniaceæ), low berry-bearing shrubs, common in North America. Also applied to North American species of the closely allied Vaccinium, more properly called blueberry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries

blueberry1594

hedge-berry1607

elderberry1625

huckleberry1670

bearberry1677

cloudberry1743

baked apple1750

pembina1760

service1785

honeyberry1787

nub-berry1794

bluet1812

noop1817

squawberry1829

quandong1836

miro1838

strawberry guava1901

squash-berry1935

tayberry1977

tummelberry1984

1670 D. Denton Brief Descr. N.-Y. 4 The Fruits natural to the Island, are Mulberries, Posimons, Grapes great and small, Huckelberries.

1796 Hist. Ned Evans II. 118 The chief dish is broth made of bears' flesh, dogs, and huckleberries.

1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. xvi. 249 To peddle out a lot of huckleberries.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xii. 357 A small heap of solemn black huckleberries.

1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants II. 384 The Vaccinium pennsylvanicum..is called the blue huckleberry.

2. U.S. colloquial. A small amount, degree, or extent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount

speckc725

littleOE

somethingc1200

lutewihtc1230

little whatc1384

ouncec1387

lap1393

smalla1400

modicumc1400

nekedc1400

spota1413

tinec1420

nieveful?a1425

handfulc1443

mouthful?c1450

smatchc1456

weec1480

quern1503

halfpennyworth1533

groatsworth1562

dram1566

shellful1578

trickle1580

snatch1592

sprinkling1594

fleck1598

snip1598

pittance1600

lick1603

fingerful1604

modicum1606

thimbleful1607

flash1614

dasha1616

pipa1616

pickle1629

drachm1635

cue1654

smack1693

starn1720

bit1753

kenning1787

minikin1787

tate1805

starnie1808

sprat1815

harl1821

skerrick1825

smallums1828

huckleberry1832

scrimp1840

thimble1841

smite1843

nattering1859

sensation1859

spurt1859

pauchlea1870

mention1891

sketch1894

sputterings1894

scrappet1901

titch1937

tad1940

skosh1959

smattering1973

1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. 182 [I once got] within a huckleberry of being smothered to death.

1920 E. W. Bok Americanization of Edward Bok 165 He always kept ‘a huckleberry or two’ ahead of his readers.

3. A person, spec. (derogatory) a person of little consequence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance

nekardc1450

man of clouts, king of clouts1467

dandiprat1556

Tom Thumb1579

minim1590

pygmy?1592

titmouse1596

gnatling1614

rye straw1615

nazzard1619

whisk1629

whifling1640

snifty1660

whippersnapper1674

nick-ninny1699

little me1711

squita1825

lightweight1831

lay figure1835

whiffet1839

pinkeen1850

huckleberry1868

bush leaguer1906

knibloch1915

1835 Gent's. Vade-Mecum (Philadelphia) 22 Aug. 2/4 Orson, the wild man of the woods is nothing to him—not a circumstance—not a huckleberry.]

1868 New Eng. Base Ballist 3 Sept. 17/1 Now then, my huckleberry, look sharp! you're wrong!

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxvi. 340 The Saracen..is no huckleberry.

4. In various phrases: to be someone's huckleberry: to be someone's sweetheart, friend, or partner; to be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon: a proverbial phrase (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (intransitive)]

to take wall1591

better1592

to take place1602

to be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon1832

the mind > emotion > love > a lover > be someone's sweetheart [verb (intransitive)]

sweetheart1798

to be someone's huckleberry1880

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > be someone's sweetheart, friend, or partner

to be someone's huckleberry1880

1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. ix. 80 If the [broad-]horn gets broadside to the current, I wouldn't risk a huckleberry to a persimmon that we don't every soul get treed, and sink to the bottom.

1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life ix. 70 But to do this, and write the warrants too, was at least a huckleberry over my persimmon.

1856 W. G. Simms Eutaw 553 My larning ain't a huckleberry to your persimmon.

1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado (1881) v. 68 The first words that we heard him speak settled his nationality, for..he sententiously remarked, ‘Hi'm 'is 'uckleberry.’

1885 D. D. Porter Incidents Civil War 204 ‘I am the fleet-surgeon of the Mississippi squadron!’..‘I'm a huckleberry above that persimmon, 'cause I'm the chief cook.’

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) ‘The persimmon above one's huckleberry’,..an avowal of disbelief in one's ability to perform..a given task or undertaking.

1926 N. N. Puckett in Opportunity Mar. 84/2 Sir, you is a huckleberry beyon' my persimmon.

1936 J. Tully Bruiser (1946) 37 Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr. Haney.

1951 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xv. 56 I'll be your huckleberry.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1), esp. as huckleberry pie.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > fruit pie

vaunt1508

warden-pie1579

apple pie1589

gooseberry-pie1747

plum pie1747

huckleberry pie1751

apple dowdy1823

cobbler1859

lemon pie1909

lemon meringue1914

1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 13 The land hereabouts is middling white oak and huckleberry land.

1775 P. V. Fithian Jrnl. 1775–6 (1934) 68 We have..boil'd potatoes & huckleberry-pie.

1851 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 24 Sept. (1992) IV. 93 The huckleberry bushes on Conantum are all turned red.

1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 70 The greater part of what is now Cambridgeport was then (in the native dialect) a ‘huckleberry pastur’.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vii. 119 That kind of gall called Huckleberry-apple.

1865 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 479 Dread Olympus at his will Became a huckleberry hill.

1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxvii. 340 Cranberry pies, huckleberry pies.

1947 Mazama Sept. 1/1 Smell that turkey, those roasting ears, and the huckleberry pies?

1972 Punch 1 Mar. 292/3 A sliver of freeze-dried huckleberry pie with apple pandowdy and French fries.

Derivatives

ˈhuckleˌberrying n. gathering huckleberries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > berry-picking

strawberrying1634

huckleberrying1721

whorting1746

blackberrying1786

barberrying1859

bilberrying1859

berrying1884

1721–2 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 160 By horse to go huckle-berrying 0 0 6.

1883 Leisure Hour 702/2 I have joined children in huckleberrying, thimbleberrying..and bilberrying.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	huckleberry
释义	huckleberryn. /ˈhʌk(ə)lbɛri/ Etymology: Conjectured to be a corruption of hurtleberry n., whortleberry n. U.S. 1. The fruit and plant of species of Gaylussacia (N.O. Vacciniaceæ), low berry-bearing shrubs, common in North America. Also applied to North American species of the closely allied Vaccinium, more properly called blueberry. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > edible berries > other berries blueberry1594 hedge-berry1607 elderberry1625 huckleberry1670 bearberry1677 cloudberry1743 baked apple1750 pembina1760 service1785 honeyberry1787 nub-berry1794 bluet1812 noop1817 squawberry1829 quandong1836 miro1838 strawberry guava1901 squash-berry1935 tayberry1977 tummelberry1984 1670 D. Denton Brief Descr. N.-Y. 4 The Fruits natural to the Island, are Mulberries, Posimons, Grapes great and small, Huckelberries. 1796 Hist. Ned Evans II. 118 The chief dish is broth made of bears' flesh, dogs, and huckleberries. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) I. xvi. 249 To peddle out a lot of huckleberries. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xii. 357 A small heap of solemn black huckleberries. 1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants II. 384 The Vaccinium pennsylvanicum..is called the blue huckleberry. 2. U.S. colloquial. A small amount, degree, or extent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > a small quantity or amount speckc725 littleOE somethingc1200 lutewihtc1230 little whatc1384 ouncec1387 lap1393 smalla1400 modicumc1400 nekedc1400 spota1413 tinec1420 nieveful?a1425 handfulc1443 mouthful?c1450 smatchc1456 weec1480 quern1503 halfpennyworth1533 groatsworth1562 dram1566 shellful1578 trickle1580 snatch1592 sprinkling1594 fleck1598 snip1598 pittance1600 lick1603 fingerful1604 modicum1606 thimbleful1607 flash1614 dasha1616 pipa1616 pickle1629 drachm1635 cue1654 smack1693 starn1720 bit1753 kenning1787 minikin1787 tate1805 starnie1808 sprat1815 harl1821 skerrick1825 smallums1828 huckleberry1832 scrimp1840 thimble1841 smite1843 nattering1859 sensation1859 spurt1859 pauchlea1870 mention1891 sketch1894 sputterings1894 scrappet1901 titch1937 tad1940 skosh1959 smattering1973 1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. 182 [I once got] within a huckleberry of being smothered to death. 1920 E. W. Bok Americanization of Edward Bok 165 He always kept ‘a huckleberry or two’ ahead of his readers. 3. A person, spec. (derogatory) a person of little consequence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance nekardc1450 man of clouts, king of clouts1467 dandiprat1556 Tom Thumb1579 minim1590 pygmy?1592 titmouse1596 gnatling1614 rye straw1615 nazzard1619 whisk1629 whifling1640 snifty1660 whippersnapper1674 nick-ninny1699 little me1711 squita1825 lightweight1831 lay figure1835 whiffet1839 pinkeen1850 huckleberry1868 bush leaguer1906 knibloch1915 1835 Gent's. Vade-Mecum (Philadelphia) 22 Aug. 2/4 Orson, the wild man of the woods is nothing to him—not a circumstance—not a huckleberry.] 1868 New Eng. Base Ballist 3 Sept. 17/1 Now then, my huckleberry, look sharp! you're wrong! 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxvi. 340 The Saracen..is no huckleberry. 4. In various phrases: to be someone's huckleberry: to be someone's sweetheart, friend, or partner; to be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon: a proverbial phrase (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [verb (intransitive)] to take wall1591 better1592 to take place1602 to be a huckleberry to (or over) someone's persimmon1832 the mind > emotion > love > a lover > be someone's sweetheart [verb (intransitive)] sweetheart1798 to be someone's huckleberry1880 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > be someone's sweetheart, friend, or partner to be someone's huckleberry1880 1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. ix. 80 If the [broad-]horn gets broadside to the current, I wouldn't risk a huckleberry to a persimmon that we don't every soul get treed, and sink to the bottom. 1834 D. Crockett Narr. Life ix. 70 But to do this, and write the warrants too, was at least a huckleberry over my persimmon. 1856 W. G. Simms Eutaw 553 My larning ain't a huckleberry to your persimmon. 1880 A. A. Hayes New Colorado (1881) v. 68 The first words that we heard him speak settled his nationality, for..he sententiously remarked, ‘Hi'm 'is 'uckleberry.’ 1885 D. D. Porter Incidents Civil War 204 ‘I am the fleet-surgeon of the Mississippi squadron!’..‘I'm a huckleberry above that persimmon, 'cause I'm the chief cook.’ 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms (at cited word) ‘The persimmon above one's huckleberry’,..an avowal of disbelief in one's ability to perform..a given task or undertaking. 1926 N. N. Puckett in Opportunity Mar. 84/2 Sir, you is a huckleberry beyon' my persimmon. 1936 J. Tully Bruiser (1946) 37 Well, I'm your huckleberry, Mr. Haney. 1951 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xv. 56 I'll be your huckleberry. Compounds attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1), esp. as huckleberry pie. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > pie > [noun] > fruit pie vaunt1508 warden-pie1579 apple pie1589 gooseberry-pie1747 plum pie1747 huckleberry pie1751 apple dowdy1823 cobbler1859 lemon pie1909 lemon meringue1914 1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 13 The land hereabouts is middling white oak and huckleberry land. 1775 P. V. Fithian Jrnl. 1775–6 (1934) 68 We have..boil'd potatoes & huckleberry-pie. 1851 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 24 Sept. (1992) IV. 93 The huckleberry bushes on Conantum are all turned red. 1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 70 The greater part of what is now Cambridgeport was then (in the native dialect) a ‘huckleberry pastur’. a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vii. 119 That kind of gall called Huckleberry-apple. 1865 J. G. Whittier Snow-bound 479 Dread Olympus at his will Became a huckleberry hill. 1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks xxvii. 340 Cranberry pies, huckleberry pies. 1947 Mazama Sept. 1/1 Smell that turkey, those roasting ears, and the huckleberry pies? 1972 Punch 1 Mar. 292/3 A sliver of freeze-dried huckleberry pie with apple pandowdy and French fries. Derivatives ˈhuckleˌberrying n. gathering huckleberries. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > berry-picking strawberrying1634 huckleberrying1721 whorting1746 blackberrying1786 barberrying1859 bilberrying1859 berrying1884 1721–2 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 160 By horse to go huckle-berrying 0 0 6. 1883 Leisure Hour 702/2 I have joined children in huckleberrying, thimbleberrying..and bilberrying. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1670
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