Dingleberry

Quick meaning: Dingleberry is a noun meaning Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the southern mountain cranberry.

Meaning

Vaccinium erythrocarpum, the southern mountain cranberry.

More Meanings

1. (slang, derogatory) A stupid or foolish person.
2. (slang, derogatory) Dried fecal matter adhering to anal hair.
3. (dated, manufacturing) Any residual irregularity following processing.

Example Sentences

dingleberries, or mountain-cranberries (Huge'ria, syn. Oxycoccoi'des), cranberries (Oxycoc'cus)

The contour of the root bead is very irregular and solidified drops of metal, "cherries" or "dingleberries," extend therefrom evidencing burn-throughs.

Helen sat on the ground crumbling hard lumps of clay between her fingers, and tried to imagine the green place in the swamp where the dingleberries grew.

That still left the problem of deciding on the "dingleberries"—the employees who would be exempt from seniority restrictions because of "special skills and outstanding abilities."

Word Forms

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Synonyms for dingleberry

Depending on context, synonyms include bearberry, idiot, moron, dag.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crampbark, vaccinium, buckberry, mooseberry, deerberry, pembina.

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