cackle berry
noun Australian /NZ informal
A hen’s egg: the hens would squawk as she reached under them to grab the cackle berry...
- Never having seen a cackle-berry, my imagination pictured them as some very luscious wild fruit.
- Bright yellow scrambled cackleberries were always available.
- Have a cackleberry for breakfast?
Origin
Early 20th century: from cackle + berry.
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