blueberrying
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbluːbəɹi.ɪŋ/, /ˈbluːbɹi.ɪŋ/
- (Us) IPA(key): /ˈbluˌbɛɹi.ɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editblueberrying (uncountable)
- The act of gathering blueberries.
- 1908, Henry James Smith, Amédée's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1908, page 91:
- The best barrens for blueberrying lay across the harbor.
- 1935, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, University of Wisconsin Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 231:
- Most joyously recalled is the blueberrying — a pleasure I had not had since my youthful days. Huge ones they, hanging thick and easy; that night when I shut my eyes I saw blueberries, a dense pattern, like wallpaper.
Translations
editact of picking blueberries
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See also
editVerb
editblueberrying
- present participle and gerund of blueberry