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hurtleberry

[ hur-tl-ber-ee ]

noun

plural hurtleberries.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of hurtleberry1

1425–75; late Middle English hurtil beri
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Hurtleberry, a form of whortleberry.

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Between the fallen trees there are briars, with hurtleberry and gooseberry bushes, raspberries, etc., which invite the bears in greater or lesser numbers, as they are a favourite food of that animal: beyond these rocky banks are found a few moose and fallow deer.

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He included everything down to the last hurtleberry, mingled personal and business expenses, often picked up the checks for expenditures by close associates and occasionally even by his servants.

Hurts is short for hurtleberry, which is another way of writing whortleberry, the correct old English form which we have since corrupted into huckleberry.

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Other names for the fruit are Blueberry, Bulberry, Hurtleberry, and Huckleberry.

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