blueberry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːb(ə)ɹi/
enpr: blu'bĕ"rē
ipa: /ˈbluˌbɛ.ɹi/
Forms: form: blueberrier
form: blueberriest
Etymology: From blue + berry.
Senses: examples: text: > > > > > > The color choice in the shop was Plum, Orange Peel, Periwinkle, or
> > > > > > Lime.
[…]
> > > Periwinkle, now renamed blueberry. Second choice, orange peel.
>
> > It looks to my eye that "blueberry" is, uh, bluer than "periwinkle."
[…]
On-site, Blueberry looked blueberrier than Periwinkle, but it does follow the Fruit Names theme more closely.
ref: 2007 September 9, Veronique, “Bowls”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2024:
glosses: Of a dark blue colour.
examples: text: Breyers finds the sweetest, sunniest blueberries. Gently presses their just-picked flavor into a smooth puree. Then mixes lavishly with Breyers famous Vanilla Ice Cream. The result—the tastiest blueberriest flavor ever!
ref: 1964 August 24, Breyers, “blueberry vanilla ice cream”, in The Daily Record, volume 75, number 122, Stroudsburg, Pa., page 5:
text: The blueberry muffin with the blueberriest flavor. / More blueberry flavor than any other mix. […] If you like more blueberry flavor in your muffins, this is the one.
ref: 1970 February, Betty Crocker, “The blueberry muffin with the blueberriest flavor”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 48, number 2, Des Moines, Ia.: Meredith Corporation, page 107:
text: IT’S THE BLUEBERRIEST TASTING MUFFIN MIX AROUND! […] New Improved Betty Crocker® Wild Blueberry Muffin Mix makes the blueberriest tasting muffins because we added more blueberry flavor. […] So they taste blueberrier than any other brand.
ref: 1978 October, Betty Crocker, “It’s new! It’s improved! It’s the blueberriest tasting muffin mix around!”, in Better Homes and Gardens, volume 56, number 10, Des Moines, Ia.: Meredith Corporation, page 143:
text: Down leaped Ron and milked the frothiest, fruitiest, blueberriest milkshake anybody had ever tasted.
ref: 2005, Rowan Clifford, Rodeo Ron and His Milkshake Cows, New York, N.Y.: Borzoi Books, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:
text: “Tommy! Good to see you, honey! Fresh blueberry, today.” / “You always know what I want. That’s great! Thanks.” / “Where’s Gussy?” she asked as she picked though the assortment. “I’ll find you the largest, blueberriest, one of the lot.” / “Blueberriest?” came Gus’s amused voice from behind me.” / “I understood,” I said. / It seemed that both Amy’s dictionary and mine were significantly different from his.
ref: 2005, David Drake, “Renewing Old Acquaintances”, in Tommy Powers and the Mutant Stranger (Tommy Powers; 2), Fayetteville, Ark.: The Family of Man Press, →ISBN, page 37:
text: Fat-Free Blueberry Muffins / The “blueberriest” of muffins and low fat, too!
ref: 2007, The Bakers at Hodgson Mill, Hodgson Mill Whole Grain Baking: 400 Healthy and Delicious Recipes for Muffins, Breads, Cookies, and More, Beverly, Mass.: Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 348:
text: You name the occasion and I’m making a blueberry pie for him to celebrate. Over the years, I’ve come up with several tricks to make this the blueberriest, fruitiest, most delicious pie ever.
ref: 2010, Joanne Chang with Christie Matheson, Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston’s Flour Bakery + Cafe, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 217:
text: When I was a kid, my mom bought a brand of super-cheap imitation blueberry muffin mix that had a tagline on the box: “Blueberrier than real blueberries!”
ref: 2014, Brooks Headley with Chris Cechin-De La Rosa, Brooks Headley’s Fancy Desserts: The Recipes of Del Posto’s James Beard Award–Winning Pastry Chef, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 69, column 1:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of blueberries.