huckleberry

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/    美 /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
    — 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.
  2. A shrub growing this fruit.
  3. 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.”
  4. A person of little consequence. slang
    — 1999, Paul Lieberstein, "De-Kahnstructing Henry" (King of the Hill TV episode} 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.
  5. The person one is looking for; the right person for the job. US,slang
    — I'm your huckleberry.
动词 v.
  1. To pick huckleberries. intransitive

词形变化

huckleberries plural huckleberries present,singular,third-person huckleberrying participle,present huckleberried participle,past huckleberried past

词汇关系

衍生词
above one's huckleberry bear huckleberry black huckleberry blue huckleberry box huckleberry bush huckleberry California huckleberry dwarf huckleberry evergreen huckleberry fool's huckleberry garden huckleberry hairy-twig huckleberry he-huckleberry highbush huckleberry huckleberry above a persimmon huckleberry above one's persimmon huckleberry oak I'm your huckleberry red huckleberry squaw huckleberry tree huckleberry winter huckleberry woolly huckleberry

词源

词源 1
Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.
词源 2
Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.
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