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Word entry · 11 letters

huckleberry

Best crossword clue

"Wild pie fruit"

11 letters · collected on this word page

11 lettersPronunciation /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/Part of speech nounSorted bceehklrruyStarts with HEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
1H2U3C4K5L6E7B8E9R10R11Y

Definitions

  1. blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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.”
  • 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.
  • I'm your huckleberry.

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