blueberrying

English

WOTD – 23 January 2013, 23 January 2015

blueberrying

Etymology

From blueberry +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbluːbəɹi.ɪŋ/, /ˈbluːbɹi.ɪŋ/
• (Us) IPA^(key): /ˈbluˌbɛɹi.ɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

blueberrying (uncountable)

1. 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.

   • 2008, Carrie Jones, Love (And Other Uses for Duct Tape), Flux, published 2008, →ISBN, page 74:

     No work except for blueberrying in August, crab picking occasionally, and making pine wreaths in December.

Translations

act of picking blueberries

• Finnish: mustikanpoiminta
• Swedish: blåbärsplockande n

See also

• bilberrying
• blackberrying
• raspberrying
• strawberrying

Verb

blueberrying

1. present participle and gerund of blueberry