cackleberry

English

Etymology

From cackle +‎ berry, from the sound of a hen and the rounded shape of an egg.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/

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Noun

cackleberry (plural cackleberries)

1. (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.