英语词汇huckleberry的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

huckleberry. The first American settlers noticed the wild huckleberry, comparing it with the English bilberry, and first calling it a hurtleberry or hirtleberry, from which its present name derives. Huckleberries were so little, plentiful, and com- mon a fruit that a huckleberry became early 19th-century slang for a small amount or a person of no consequence, both of these expressions probably inspiring Mark Twain to name his hero Huckleberry Finn. The berry was also used in the collo- quial phrase as thick as huckleberries, very thick, and to get the huckleberry, to be laughed at or ridiculed, a predecessor of sorts of the raspberry (razz), or Bronx Cheer. To be a huckleberry to someone’s persimmon meant, in 19th-century frontier vernacu- lar, to be nothing in comparison with someone else. Huckle- berries, which are not a true berry but a drupe fruit, belong to the Gaylussacia genus, which was so named in honor of French chemist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850). See also bronx; holy cow!

词汇	huckleberry
词源	huckleberry. The first American settlers noticed the wild huckleberry, comparing it with the English bilberry, and first calling it a hurtleberry or hirtleberry, from which its present name derives. Huckleberries were so little, plentiful, and com- mon a fruit that a huckleberry became early 19th-century slang for a small amount or a person of no consequence, both of these expressions probably inspiring Mark Twain to name his hero Huckleberry Finn. The berry was also used in the collo- quial phrase as thick as huckleberries, very thick, and to get the huckleberry, to be laughed at or ridiculed, a predecessor of sorts of the raspberry (razz), or Bronx Cheer. To be a huckleberry to someone’s persimmon meant, in 19th-century frontier vernacu- lar, to be nothing in comparison with someone else. Huckle- berries, which are not a true berry but a drupe fruit, belong to the Gaylussacia genus, which was so named in honor of French chemist Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850). See also bronx; holy cow!
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