hurtleberry

English

Etymology

From Middle English hurtil-beri (“bilberry or blue whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); berry of this shrub”);[1] further etymology unknown, compare Middle English horten, hurten (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”), and Old English horte (“bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)”).[2]

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜːtl̩bɛɹi/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜɹt(ə)lˌbɛɹi/, [-ɾ(ə)l-]
Hyphenation: hurt‧le‧ber‧ry

Noun

hurtleberry (plural hurtleberries)

Synonym of whortleberry

References

“hurtil-berī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
“horten, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: see the supplemental materials (the original gloss states “some kind of fruit tree; ?the cornel cherry”).

Vaccinium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Vaccinium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Vaccinium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Joseph Wright, editor (1902), “HURTLEBERRY, sb.”, in The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume III (H–L), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 291, column 1.

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[1] “hurtil-berī, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

[2] “horten, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007: see the supplemental materials (the original gloss states “some kind of fruit tree; ?the cornel cherry”).