whortle
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Middle English hurtil, hurtle, from Old English horte (“whortleberry”) (plural hortan) but of unknown ultimate origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɝtl̩/, /ˈʍɝtl̩/
Noun[edit]
whortle (plural whortles)
- (archaic) The whortleberry or bilberry.
- 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:
- […] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.
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References[edit]
- “whortle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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