Meanings
- uncountableThe act of gathering blueberries.
The best barrens for blueberrying lay across the harbor.
1908, Henry James Smith, Amédée's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1908, page 912 more examples
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 231No 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
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of blueberry
Origin
Translations
Finnish mustikanpoiminta
- mustikanpoimintaact of picking blueberries
Polish zbieranie jagód
- zbieranie jagódact of picking blueberries
Swedish blåbärsplockande
- blåbärsplockandeact of picking blueberries
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