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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats