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cackleberry

noun
/ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/UK

Etymology

From cackle + berry, from the sound of a hen and the rounded shape of an egg.

  1. derived from *bʰerH-✻ — “to rip, cut, split, grate”
  2. inherited from *barjaną✻ — “to beat, hit”
  3. inherited from *barjan✻
  4. inherited from *berian✻
  5. inherited from beryen
  6. compounded as cackleberry — “cackle + berry”

Definitions

  1. An egg.

    • He had returned with a chipped bowl full of hen's eggs. ‘Nice fresh cackleberries for your mum and dad.’
    • Kestrels they hunted down for their clusters of mottled cackleberries.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA