See the popularity of the boys name huckleberry over time, plus its meaning, origin, common sibling names, and more in babycenters baby names tool. Huckleberry finn was portrayed to be 12 or years old, derived from twains boyhood friend, tom blankenship, as ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed. In the classic western movie tombstone 1993 val kilmer, as doc holliday, says to johnny ringo, im your huckleberry, thats just my game. Youre a daisy if you do posted by laura garrett on august 30, 2008 at 12. The current astronomical poop is that the canals are either cracks in the crust of mars, driedup. The name huck means short form of huckleberry and is of american origin. Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Identifying huckleberries archives intl wild huckleberry.
The initial shortlived euphoria of a reinforcer as powerful as crack will be followed by a crash. Nowdays its usually used as a response to a threat or challenge, as in the movie. How many people with the first name huckleberry have been born in the united states. The 411 on words meaning information merriamwebster. The historical dictionary of american slang which is a multivolume work. Slang meaning person of little consequence is attested. This slang page is designed to explain what the meaning of huckleberry is. The random house historical dictionary of american slang, ho by j. What does the cowboy slang huckleberry mean answers. A bone to pick, a difficulty to solve, nut to crack, a matter of dispute, something. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera vaccinium and gaylussacia a shrub growing this. Also that, throughout the movie tombstone, ike constantly refers to the earps as pimps. These are located at the end of the regular slang dictionary under a separate heading. Their functional effect is to stop us from being truly happy for long.
Gaylussacia baccata, black huckleberry low shrub of the eastern united states bearing shiny black edible fruit. Im a huckleberry over your persimmon meant im better than you. Hill of beans slang for something of trifling value, as. Highgrader in the mining camps of the old west, a highgrader was a man who stole any big nuggets which he saw in the sluice boxes. Therefore, i am your huckleberry may well have been spoken to the earps and the statements meaning may be i am your champion. From 1880 to 2018, the social security administration has recorded 207 babies born with the first name huckleberry in the united. Top synonym for huckleberry another word for huckleberry is blueberry. A set of colorful expressions used in twains novel.
The definition, example, and related terms listed above have been written and compiled by the slangit team. First, it denoted a small unit of measure, a tad, as it were, and a person who was a huckleberry could be a small, unimportant person. Geological survey research ecologist tabitha graves and biologist nate michael mapped out. Huckleberry huck finn is a fictional character in the books the adventures of tom sawyer 1876 and adventures of huckleberry finn 1884, by american author and humorist, mark twain. It regained currency as a folk song in the 1940s at the beginning of the american folk music revival and has since become a popular childrens song. The brain has evolved a truly vicious set of negative feedback mechanisms. I recently ran into the phrase im your huckleberry in a story about the old west.
At the same time, dope was also used as a slang term for medicine. Huckleberry definition is any of a genus gaylussacia of american shrubs of the heath family. It had nothing to do with the modern meaning of the slang term. Any of various darkfruited as distinguished from bluefruited blueberries. A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color of several plants in the related genera vaccinium and gaylussacia a shrub growing this fruit a small amount. Hill of beans slang for something of trifling value, as in it aint worth a hill of beans. Definition of huckleberry in the idioms dictionary. Huckleberry definition of huckleberry by the free dictionary. It was a huckleberry over my persimmon meant it was too difficult or just out of reach. Huckleberry definition, the darkblue or black edible berry of any of various shrubs belonging to the genus gaylussacia of the heath family. Change your default dictionary to american english.
Full text of a dictionary of slang and colloquial english. But now, with current satellite technology, huckleberry patches can be located from space. Huck is a name thats been used by parents who are considering baby names for boys. Hes a great handyman but electrical work is above his huckleberry. Lifting that heavy box is definitely above my huckleberry my arms are too scrawny for that. A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words after wards entitled the. A few modern parents have put it on a birth certificate, including man vs. This is the british english definition of huckleberry.
Huckleberry is a name thats been used by parents who are considering baby names for boys. Huckleberry article about huckleberry by the free dictionary. All the talk about what it meant for doc holliday to say, youre a daisy if you do and what daisy in that time period meant has little to do with the definition of the word daisy or deusy doozy. Learn more about slang in popular culture and find links to online american slang dictionaries. We are constantly updating our database with new slang terms, acronyms, and abbreviations.
Huckleberrying definition of huckleberrying by the free. Lighter random house, new york, 1997 lists several meanings. Perhaps this is why the huckleberry inspired many different phrases dating back to the 1800s. Personally i think given the context, to change it would not give a true depiction of how it actually was in that era. Finally, by the late 19th century, slang dictionaries defined the phrase as a man needed for a particular purpose.
Definition and synonyms of huckleberry from the online english dictionary from macmillan education. The name huckleberry is a boys name of english, american origin. Doc holliday im your huckleberry true west magazine. Much like a crack addict it will do anything to satiate it huckleberry needs. Huckleberry definition and meaning collins english dictionary. Definition of is his huckleberry in the idioms dictionary. Til im your huckleberry is a rather obscure reference to. Everybody knows huckleberry finn, the mark twain character named, twain said, for the 19th century slang term for humble. As a last name huckleberry was the 27,625 th most popular name in 2010. Because huckleberries are small, the word huckleberry was often used as a nickname for something small, unimportant, or insignificant. Later, a huckleberry took on the meaning of a sidekick, or a partner lesser in stature or importance to his counterpart.
Huckleberry definition in the cambridge english dictionary. Save my huckle screamed mommy as the firefighters attempted to put out the trailer fire started by the meth lab explosion. Im a huckleberry over your persimmon meant im just a bit better than you. A lowgrowing deciduous shrub vaccinium myrtillus of the heath family native to eurasia and western north america, having edible bluish. Huckleberry was commonly used in the 1800s in conjunction with persimmon as a small unit of measure. This page explains what the slang term huckleberry means. Knowing the location of a good huckleberry patch is the most valuable information an avid picker can have. Use cliffsnotes the adventures of huckleberry finn study guide today to ace your next test. Western slang, lingo, and phrases a writers guide to the. So im your huckleberry means im just the man youre looking for.
The name huckleberry means sweet berry and is of american origin. Crack slang synonyms, crack slang pronunciation, crack slang translation, english dictionary definition of crack slang. Well, the first time this quote shows up in print is in walter noble burns book tombstone in 1928. Crack slang definition of crack slang by the free dictionary. What does it mean when someone says ill be your huckleberry. The huckleberry and similar species are often confused with the blueberry the names sometimes are used interchangeably, but the fruits are botanically distinct. Get free homework help on mark twains adventures of huckleberry finn. The origin is the dutch word verlooten, meaning stilted. Huckleberry definition of huckleberry by merriamwebster. A bear that has a severe chronic addiction to huckleberries. Im a huckleberry to your persimmon meant im david, youre goliath 2. Huckleberry noun definition and synonyms macmillan. Oct 29, 2008 personally i think given the context, to change it would not give a true depiction of how it actually was in that era. Real estate exchanger term meaning a keeper property that would not be traded off without a substantial advantage gained.
Another theory is that the phrase came from mark twains character of huckleberry finn. It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how i find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day. The historical dictionary of american slang which is a multivolume work, has about a third of a column of citations documenting this meaning all through the latter 19th century. Huckleberry boys name meaning, origin, and popularity. Looking up the term in a dictionary, i found that in slang it meant special man for the job around 1880, but is now considered archaic. Technically the fruit and plant of gaylussacia, but also widely colloquially applied to the closely related blueberry vaccinium. Huckleberry is the 26,868 th most popular name of all time. As a result, huckleberry came to denote idiomatically two things. But on the other hand the sheer outrage of those whom such words have no real deep rooted pain or meaning to raises another question.
Jimmy crack corn or blue tail fly is an american song which first became popular during the rise of blackface minstrelsy in the 1840s through performances by the virginia minstrels. Gullible gulls, huckleberry, jumbi, wooden nickels, realtors, and calling a spade a spade. The commonest huckelberry comes from gaylussacia resinosa. Scholars believe this was the meaning mark twain had in mind when he named his huckleberry finn character. As a rule of thumb, it is profoundly unwise to take crack cocaine. Til im your huckleberry is a rather obscure reference to an arcane american expression, im a huckleberry to your persimmon, meaning im a bit better than you at the skill in question. Information and translations of huckleberry in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. Holliday and originates from his home state of georgia. Huckleberry definition of huckleberry by medical dictionary. The most popular abbreviation for adventures of huckleberry finn is.
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