blueberrying en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈbluˌbɛɹi.ɪŋ/ Us
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈbluːbəɹi.ɪŋ/ (UK)
- /ˈbluːbɹi.ɪŋ/ (UK)
Etymology
From blueberry + -ing.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The act of gathering blueberries.
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.
1935, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, University of Wisconsin Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 231:No work except for blueberrying in August, crab picking occasionally, and making pine wreaths in December.
2008, Carrie Jones, Love (And Other Uses for Duct Tape), Flux, published 2008, →ISBN, page 74:The best barrens for blueberrying lay across the harbor.
1908, Henry James Smith, Amédée's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1908, page 91:
Relateds
blackberrying · raspberrying · strawberrying · bilberrying
Translations (3)
fi mustikanpoiminta (act of picking blueberries) · sv blåbärsplockande (act of picking blueberries) · pl zbieranie jagód (act of picking blueberries)