Definitions
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- noun A
shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere. - noun The
berry of this shrub.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
- noun low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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A lingonberry is a small red berry, very much like a cranberry, but sweeter, not quite as tart.
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A lingonberry is a small red berry, very much like a cranberry, but sweeter, not quite as tart.
Archive 2008-04-01 Wendy 2008
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According to a few websites the cowberry is also known as the lingonberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
Russian Booze Barbara 2005
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According to a few websites the cowberry is also known as the lingonberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea.
Archive 2005-07-01 Barbara 2005
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Something Scandinavian would be nice, like pickled anything with an aquavit, lingonberry, dill sauce, but call it glaze.
Anna Brones: Formulating the Foolproof Foodie Menu Anna Brones 2011
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Take, for example, the BAMcafé's entry—little more than chef Tim Sullivan's launching pad for a Vesuvius of Hudson Valley duck confit, lingonberry chutney and crispy kale.
Lining Up for Latkes Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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Swedish meatballs/salmon fillet, new potatoes, steamed veggie, lingonberry sauce/juice …
Matthew Yglesias » School Lunch Or; How to Make Government Work 2009
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Mr. Cowell, 51 years old, sipped on his specially formulated antiaging smoothie, which he drinks daily, made with imported lingonberry, acerola berry, chokeberry and aronia juice flown in specially from exotic locations.
The Judging of Simon Cowell Amy Chozick 2011
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Swedish meatballs/salmon fillet, new potatoes, steamed veggie, lingonberry sauce/juice …
Matthew Yglesias » School Lunch Or; How to Make Government Work 2009
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Something Scandinavian would be nice, like pickled anything with an aquavit, lingonberry, dill sauce, but call it glaze.
Anna Brones: Formulating the Foolproof Foodie Menu Anna Brones 2011
rolig commented on the word lingonberry
Nabokov insists that it is this berry from which is made the beverage Tatyana's mother serves on Onegin's first visit: "brusnichnaya voda" (which one might easily be tempted to translate "cranberry water"). In his Commentary, Nabokov wittily calls this drink lingonade.
December 7, 2007
bilby commented on the word lingonberry
Commonly used to make jam for pancakes in Finland.
December 7, 2007
sionnach commented on the word lingonberry
Also known as:
foxberry
cowberry
partridgeberry
sparkleberry
lowbush cranberry
mountain cranberry
csejka berry
hurtleberry
mountain bilberry
bilbyberry*
red whortleberry
redberry
Vaccinium vitis idaea
бру�?ника
Preiselbeerchen
airelle (I'm a little doubtful about this, as the French-English dictionary lists bilberry and cranberry as the translation; however, the only French word given for cranberry is canneberge)
*: madeupical
Source: languagehat entry (and comments); Dec 24th, 2008.
January 22, 2009
john commented on the word lingonberry
Also known as the Ikea berry.
January 22, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word lingonberry
Cuuuute...
This berry, though it does not suck, makes an appearance on this list.
January 22, 2009
sionnach commented on the word lingonberry
Just in case anyone is puzzled, I deleted farkleberry and whortleberry from the list in the previous comment; as they appear not to be red.
There seems to be more than a little confusion out there as far as berry nomenclature is concerned.
I tried to verify whether or not moss peach is another term for lingonberry, as one of the blog comments seemed to suggest. But the google search results scared me away. Though not before I found out that Peaches Geldoff has apparently supplanted Kate Moss as the face/body of Agent Provocateur, whatever that might be.
January 22, 2009
bilby commented on the word lingonberry
Damn! Farkleberry was the best one!
January 22, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word lingonberry
Who else is old enough to remember Euell Gibbons and his highbush cranberries?
January 22, 2009
skipvia commented on the word lingonberry
Tastes like wild hickory nuts!
He died of Dutch Elm disease, you know...
January 22, 2009
sionnach commented on the word lingonberry
Chortleberry!
January 22, 2009
reesetee commented on the word lingonberry
But many parts of him were edible.
January 23, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word lingonberry
ha ha!! *finally gets it*
January 23, 2009
reesetee commented on the word lingonberry
Such a young'un. ;->
January 23, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word lingonberry
No, no, I recognized the commercial! I didn't recognize the name when y'all were just talking about it.
January 23, 2009
dontcry commented on the word lingonberry
Also popular with Swedes. Lingonberries, that is, not Euell Gibbons.
January 23, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word lingonberry
... What do Swedes have against Euell Gibbons?
*joke*
January 23, 2009
reesetee commented on the word lingonberry
He eats all of their forests, that's what.
January 24, 2009
jennarenn commented on the word lingonberry
c_b beat me to the punch. I was a big fan of out loud on toast with lingonberry butter.
January 24, 2009