cackle berry
noun Australian /NZ informal
A hen’s egg: the hens would squawk as she reached under them to grab the cackle berry...
- Never having seen a cackle-berry, my imagination pictured them as some very luscious wild fruit.
- Bright yellow scrambled cackleberries were always available.
- Have a cackleberry for breakfast?
Origin
Early 20th century: from cackle + berry.
- sinfulness
- sing
- sing.
- singable
- sing a different tune (or song)
- singalong
- Singapore
- Singaporean
- Singapore sling
- singe
- singer
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Singer, Isaac Merrit
- singer-songwriter
- sing for one's supper
- sing from the same hymn (or song) sheet
- Singh
- Singhalese
- singing hinny
- singingly
- singing saw
- sing in (or out) the new (or old) year
- sing-jay
- sing-jaying
- single