cackleberry

plural cackleberries

1. archaicslangAn egg.

   Kestrels they hunted down for their clusters of mottled cackleberries.

   2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 218

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   He had returned with a chipped bowl full of hen's eggs. ‘Nice fresh cackleberries for your mum and dad.’

   1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 254

   Synonyms: cackle-fart, cackle fruit