Sekirov Dictionary

huckleberry

UK /ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/US /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/

noun 5
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 2

noun5

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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(US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
- I'm your huckleberry.
A shrub growing this fruit.
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(slang) A person of little consequence.
- You got such a bug in your bonnet about phones? Check this out. I call France on this phone whenever I want. France, Europe, huckleberry. — 1999
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A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
- 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.” — 1967

verb1

To pick huckleberries.

forms

huckleberried · huckleberrying · huckleberries

Phrases with huckleberry

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