Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
huckleberry .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
whortleberry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
whortleberry .
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Live-oak appears in a document of 1610; bull-frog was familiar to Beverley in 1705; so was James-town weed (later reduced to Jimson weed, as the English hurtleberry or whortleberry was reduced to huckleberry).
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material Henry Louis 1921
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