Huckleberry

/ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/ · noun

Meaning

A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia..

Definitions by Sense

1. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
2. A shrub growing this fruit.
3. A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
4. (slang) A person of little consequence.
5. (US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
6. (intransitive) To pick huckleberries.

Example Sentences

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

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.”

I'm your huckleberry.

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• huckleberries
• huckleberrying
• huckleberried

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