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单词 cackle berry
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Definition of cackle berry in English:

cackle berry

noun
Australian, NZ informal
  • A hen's egg.

    the hens would squawk as she reached under them to grab the cackle berry
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Have a cackleberry for breakfast?
    • Never having seen a cackle-berry, my imagination pictured them as some very luscious wild fruit.
    • This is the first cackle-berry of the 1915 vintage, produced by a pullet who first saw the light just 4 months ago.
    • Bright yellow scrambled cackleberries were always available.
    • He ducked six cents' worth of cackle-berry just in time.
    • If you were a Southern poultry farmer, you'd wake up and carefully collect a dozen warm cackleberries.
    • She held out a surreptitious cackle-berry or two with a toothless, shameless grin.
    • He chucked a cackle-berry between two slices of bread.
    • A chunk of ham and a couple cackle berry. I guess I gobbled up that food.
    • He can tell I wouldn't be a cackle-berry merchant.

Origin

Early 20th century: from cackle + berry.

 
 
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