Associations to the word «Huckleberry»

Wiktionary

HUCKLEBERRY, noun. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
HUCKLEBERRY, noun. A shrub growing this fruit.
HUCKLEBERRY, noun. (idiomatic) A small amount, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
HUCKLEBERRY ABOVE A PERSIMMON, noun. (idiomatic) Something slightly better than something else.

Dictionary definition

HUCKLEBERRY, noun. Any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries.
HUCKLEBERRY, noun. Any of several shrubs of the genus Gaylussacia bearing small berries resembling blueberries.
HUCKLEBERRY, noun. Blue-black berry similar to blueberries and bilberries of the eastern United States.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope