blueberrying

blueberrying

English

WOTD – 23 January 2013

WOTD – 23 January 2015

blueberrying

Etymology

blueberry +‎ -ing

Noun

blueberrying (uncountable)

1. The act of gathering blueberries.
   • 1908, Henry James Smith, Amédée's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company (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 (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 (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 (fi)

Swedish: blåbärsplockande n

See also

• blackberrying
• raspberrying

Verb

blueberrying

1. present participle of blueberry