cackleberry
English
editEtymology
editFrom cackle + berry, from the sound of a hen and the rounded shape of an egg.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
editcackleberry (plural cackleberries)
- (slang, now rare) An egg.
- Synonyms: cackle-fart, cackle fruit
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 254:
- He had returned with a chipped bowl full of hen's eggs. ‘Nice fresh cackleberries for your mum and dad.’
- 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 218:
- Kestrels they hunted down for their clusters of mottled cackleberries.