"huckleberry" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/ [General-American], /ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-au-huckleberry.ogg [Australia] Forms: huckleberries [plural]
Etymology: Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s. Etymology templates: {{cog|enm|hurtilbery||whortleberry}} Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} huckleberry (plural huckleberries)
  1. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia. Categories (lifeform): Blueberry tribe plants
    Sense id: en-huckleberry-en-noun-IuepjapO Disambiguation of Blueberry tribe plants: 40 14 5 6 25 10
  2. A shrub growing this fruit. Translations (shrub — see also buckberry): ᎫᏩᏯ (guwaya) (Cherokee), valemustikka (english: Gaylussacia) (Finnish), puolukka (Finnish), pensasmustikka (english: Vaccinium) (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-huckleberry-en-noun-88DOzjsF Disambiguation of 'shrub — see also buckberry': 13 43 15 2 27
  3. A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon. Translations (small amount): hiven (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-huckleberry-en-noun-7n46hPTm Disambiguation of 'small amount': 8 3 81 3 5
  4. (slang) A person of little consequence. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-huckleberry-en-noun-en:little_consequence
  5. (US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job. Tags: US, slang Categories (topical): People Categories (lifeform): Berries Translations (fruit — see also buckberry): aapaawapsspi (Blackfoot), nadó [masculine] (Catalan), mirtil americà [masculine] (Catalan), valemustikka (english: Gaylussacia) (Finnish), puolukka (Finnish), pensasmustikka (english: Vaccinium) (Finnish), myrtille américaine [feminine] (French), Heidelbeere [feminine] (German), mirtillo americano [masculine] (Italian), myrtillus americanus [masculine] (Latin), huapēre (Maori), mirtilo americano [masculine] (Portuguese), arádano americano [masculine] (Spanish), min (Unami)
    Sense id: en-huckleberry-en-noun-1Wx72Jny Disambiguation of People: 8 30 5 0 39 19 Disambiguation of Berries: 24 19 6 4 33 14 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 19 5 8 3 41 24 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 26 4 7 4 44 15 Disambiguation of 'fruit — see also buckberry': 30 20 9 1 39
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: above one's huckleberry, bear huckleberry (taxonomic: Gaylussacia ursina), black huckleberry (taxonomic: Vaccinium membranaceum), blue huckleberry (taxonomic: Gaylussacia frondosa), box huckleberry (taxonomic: Gaylussacia brachycera), bush huckleberry (taxonomic: Gaylussacia dumosa), California huckleberry (taxonomic: Vaccinium ovatum), dwarf huckleberry (taxonomic: Gaylussacia dumosa), evergreen huckleberry (taxonomic: Vaccinium ovatum), fool's huckleberry (alt: Menziesia ferruginea), garden huckleberry (taxonomic: Solanum nigrum), hairy-twig huckleberry (taxonomic: Gaylussacia tomentosa), he-huckleberry (taxonomic: Cyrilla racemiflora), highbush huckleberry (taxonomic: Vaccinium stamineum), huckleberry above a persimmon, huckleberry above one's persimmon, huckleberry oak (taxonomic: Quercus vaccinifolia), I'm your huckleberry, red huckleberry (taxonomic: Vaccinium parvifolium), squaw huckleberry (taxonomic: Vaccinium caesium), tree huckleberry (taxonomic: Vaccinium arboreum), winter huckleberry (taxonomic: Vaccinium ovatum), woolly huckleberry (taxonomic: Gaylussacia mosieri)

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/ [General-American], /ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-au-huckleberry.ogg [Australia] Forms: huckleberries [present, singular, third-person], huckleberrying [participle, present], huckleberried [participle, past], huckleberried [past]
Etymology: Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s. Etymology templates: {{cog|enm|hurtilbery||whortleberry}} Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} huckleberry (third-person singular simple present huckleberries, present participle huckleberrying, simple past and past participle huckleberried)
  1. (intransitive) To pick huckleberries. Tags: intransitive Related terms: huckle
    Sense id: en-huckleberry-en-verb--cJyJnrT

Inflected forms

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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.",
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    }
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      "glosses": [
        "A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia."
      ],
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      "glosses": [
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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.”",
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        }
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        "A person of little consequence."
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        }
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        "The person one is looking for; the right person for the job."
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      ],
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      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/",
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      "code": "bla",
      "lang": "Blackfoot",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "word": "aapaawapsspi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nadó"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mirtil americà"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "Gaylussacia",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "word": "valemustikka"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "word": "puolukka"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "english": "Vaccinium",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "word": "pensasmustikka"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "myrtille américaine"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Heidelbeere"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mirtillo americano"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "myrtillus americanus"
    },
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "word": "huapēre"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mirtilo americano"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arádano americano"
    },
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      "code": "unm",
      "lang": "Unami",
      "sense": "fruit — see also buckberry",
      "word": "min"
    },
    {
      "code": "chr",
      "lang": "Cherokee",
      "roman": "guwaya",
      "sense": "shrub — see also buckberry",
      "word": "ᎫᏩᏯ"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "english": "Gaylussacia",
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      "sense": "shrub — see also buckberry",
      "word": "valemustikka"
    },
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      "sense": "shrub — see also buckberry",
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      "code": "fi",
      "english": "Vaccinium",
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      "word": "pensasmustikka"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small amount",
      "word": "hiven"
    }
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    "huckleberry"
  ],
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}

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    "Entries missing English vernacular names of taxa",
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