hurtleberry
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of hurtleberry
1425–75; late Middle English hurtil beri
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He included everything down to the last hurtleberry, mingled personal and business expenses, often picked up the checks for expenditures by close associates and occasionally even by his servants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hurts is short for hurtleberry, which is another way of writing whortleberry, the correct old English form which we have since corrupted into huckleberry.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
The former, which consisted among many others, of gooseberries, hurtleberries, and raspberries, were of the finest I ever saw or tasted, of their respective kinds.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Mackenzie, Alexander
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