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A huckleberry is a small dark-blue fruit that grows on a bush in North America. It looks a lot like a , and people mix the two up all the time; they are close, but they are not the same fruit.
A huckleberry is a small dark-blue fruithuckleberry是一種深藍色的小果實 that grows on a bush in North America長在北美洲的灌木上 It looks a lot like a blueberry它長得很像藍莓 and people mix the two up all the time大家常常把兩者搞混 they are close, but they are not the same fruit兩者很像，但不是同一種水果
Huckleberries more often grow wild than on farms, so in American talk they feel local and a bit rustic. The word is American; British English hardly uses it.
Huckleberries more often grow wild than on farmshuckleberry比較常是野生的，不太靠農場栽種 so in American talk they feel local and a bit rustic所以在美式說法裡，它給人一種在地、有點鄉土的感覺 The word is American這個字是美式用法 British English hardly uses it英式英語幾乎不用
Most meet it first as a name: Huckleberry Finn is the boy in the famous book, and his first name is this fruit. In old American speech people sometimes said “I’m your huckleberry” to mean “I am the right person for this,” which is a playful stretch and has nothing to do with eating berries.
Most learners meet it first as a name大部分學習者第一次遇到這個字，是當作人名 Huckleberry Finn is the boy in the famous bookHuckleberry Finn是那本名著裡的男孩 and his first name is this fruit他的名字就是這個水果的名字 In old American speech people sometimes said "I'm your huckleberry"在早期的美式說法裡，人們有時候會說『I'm your huckleberry』 to mean "I am the right person for this,"意思是『這件事交給我就對了』 which is a playful stretch and has nothing to do with eating berries這是一種俏皮的引申說法，跟吃莓果一點關係都沒有
The name probably comes from an older English fruit word, whortleberry (Middle English hurtilbery), that changed shape after it crossed the ocean in the 1660s.
The name probably comes from an older English fruit word, whortleberry (Middle English hurtilbery),這個名字很可能來自一個更古老的英語水果字whortleberry（中古英語hurtilbery） that changed shape after it crossed the ocean in the 1660s.在1660年代跨海之後，發音和拼法就變了樣
組成Probably a changed form of older English hurtilbery / whortleberry. American English from the 1660s. The -berry piece is the ordinary fruit word.
同家族的字
- berrythe fruit ending; a huckleberry is one kind of berry
- whortleberrythe older English fruit name this word probably grew out of
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
huckleberrynoun/ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/
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A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
- I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
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A shrub growing this fruit.
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A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
- Porter preferred prose to poetry. Prose seemed to him to be a concrete, practical form of expression. But poetry, as he informed a poet who signed his name “Evergreen,” was “a huckleberry beyond us.”
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slangA person of little consequence.
- 1999, Paul Lieberstein, "De-Kahnstructing Henry" (King of the Hill TV episode You got such a bug in your bonnet about phones? Check this out. I call France on this phone whenever I want. France, Europe, huckleberry.
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slangThe person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
- I'm your huckleberry.
huckleberryverb/ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/
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To pick huckleberries.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。