huckleberry

Meanings

Noun

• A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
• A shrub growing this fruit.
• A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
• A person of little consequence.
• The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.

Verb

• To pick huckleberries.

Origin

• Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery ("whortleberry"). American English from 1660s.