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  • noun The act of gathering blueberries.
  • verb Present participle of blueberry.

Etymologies

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blueberry +‎ -ing

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  •  in-house instant messaging systems (constant informal chat)  communal customer email systems (two job sharers, one email account)  centralised online data storage (eliminates problems of files left elsewhere)  video conferencing  'blueberrying' (double edged sword) 

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  • Ringing the Towncrier's bell and fishing and blueberrying and telling yarns and helping everybody bear their trouble was the least part of his doings.

    Georgina of the Rainbows 1897

  • Many a day they had spent together, these two, fishing or blueberrying or tramping across the dunes.

    Georgina of the Rainbows 1897

  • Mrs. Saggs came in to sit with her while I was out blueberrying, but she said she couldn't stay past ten o'clock.

    Georgina of the Rainbows 1897

  • In the summer we went strawberrying and blueberrying, and played "hide and coop" behind the tall yellow haycocks, and rode on the top of the full haycarts.

    The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • I went blueberrying with Mrs. Alderling in the morning after she had got her breakfast dishes put away, in order that we might have something for dessert at our midday dinner; and I went fishing off the old stone crib with Alderling in the afternoon, so that we might have cunners for supper.

    Questionable Shapes William Dean Howells 1878

  • When, in the summer, I saw a family a-blueberrying a mile off, walking about amid the dwarfish bushes which did not come up higher than their ankles, they seemed to me to be a race of giants, twenty feet high at least.

    Cape Cod 1865

  • After they had walked along a little way, Rollo's father asked him whether he had a good time blueberrying?

    Rollo at Play Safe Amusements Jacob Abbott 1841

  • "In _hopes_," thought Rollo; "that is very strange when we want to go a blueberrying."

    Rollo at Play Safe Amusements Jacob Abbott 1841

  • Rollo's mother advised him, when he went to bed the evening before the day fixed upon for the blueberrying, to rise early the next morning, and take a good reading lesson before breakfast.

    Rollo at Play Safe Amusements Jacob Abbott 1841

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