Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A deciduous shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) of the eastern United States, having dark blue fruits. Also called dwarf huckleberry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as blue-tangle.
Wiktionary
- n. An ericaceous flowering plant in the genus Gaylussacia.
- n. Its dark blue edible berry with white bloom.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.
WordNet 3.0
- n. huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
- n. huckleberry of the eastern United States with pink flowers and sweet blue fruit
Etymologies
- dangle + berry (Wiktionary)
- Probably alteration of tangleberry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The dangleberry is a juicy, sweet, blue-black berry.”
“Lowland forest understory growth tends to be more varied than upland growth, with sheep laurel, stagger-bush, dangleberry, black huckleberry, and sweet pepperbush as prominent shrubs.”
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey
“I wonder whether Gorbals Mick would rule it out of order if he were to describe a Tory MP as a "treacherous dangleberry?”
“And now you're joking about it you ... you ... hapless dangleberry?”
“(£2,268), new grommets (£112), set of hexagonal tag nuts and dangleberry adapter (£35) and new piss-take valves (£120).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dangleberry’.
-
berry neat
very nice enticing, berrilicious words
bearberry, sugarberry, jamberry, checkerberry, foxberry, farkleberry, spiceberry, inkberry, crowberry, wolfberry, thimbleberry, aleberry and 69 more...
-
known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
-
w8f's Words
chortle, shad, escapology, gonad, suspicious, brusque, shriek, panoply, vista, grizzly, gristle, grist and 48 more...
-
dangleberry's Words
lush, dabble, babble, bauble, aubergine, dangle, tingle, tangle, zing, tomato, splosh, tinkle and 72 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dangleberry.

Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.