Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cackleberry

/ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cack-le-ber-ry
IPA: /ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An egg.

Archaic; Slang

Example Sentences

"He had returned with a chipped bowl full of hen's eggs. ‘Nice fresh cackleberries for your mum and dad.’"
"Kestrels they hunted down for their clusters of mottled cackleberries."

Etymology

From cackle + berry, from the sound of a hen and the rounded shape of an egg.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/

Usage

Inflected Forms

cackleberries (plural)

Synonyms

cackle-fart cackle fruit

Questions

How do you pronounce cackleberry?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkakl̩bɛɹi/.
What does cackleberry mean?: An egg.
Where does cackleberry come from?: From cackle + berry, from the sound of a hen and the rounded shape of an egg.

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