Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to blueberry
Participle: blueberried
Gerund: blueberrying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | blueberry |
| you | blueberry |
| he;she;it | blueberries |
| we | blueberry |
| you | blueberry |
| they | blueberry |
Perfect
| I | have blueberried |
| you | have blueberried |
| he;she;it | has blueberried |
| we | have blueberried |
| you | have blueberried |
| they | have blueberried |
Past
| I | blueberried |
| you | blueberried |
| he;she;it | blueberried |
| we | blueberried |
| you | blueberried |
| they | blueberried |
Pluperfect
| I | had blueberried |
| you | had blueberried |
| he;she;it | had blueberried |
| we | had blueberried |
| you | had blueberried |
| they | had blueberried |
Future
| I | will blueberry |
| you | will blueberry |
| he;she;it | will blueberry |
| we | will blueberry |
| you | will blueberry |
| they | will blueberry |
Future Perfect
| I | will have blueberried |
| you | will have blueberried |
| he;she;it | will have blueberried |
| we | will have blueberried |
| you | will have blueberried |
| they | will have blueberried |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | blueberry |
| you | blueberry |
| he;she;it | blueberry |
| we | blueberry |
| you | blueberry |
| they | blueberry |
Perfect
| I | have blueberried |
| you | have blueberried |
| he;she;it | have blueberried |
| we | have blueberried |
| you | have blueberried |
| they | have blueberried |
Imperfect
| I | blueberried |
| you | blueberried |
| he;she;it | blueberried |
| we | blueberried |
| you | blueberried |
| they | blueberried |
Pluperfect
| I | had blueberried |
| you | had blueberried |
| he;she;it | had blueberried |
| we | had blueberried |
| you | had blueberried |
| they | had blueberried |
Conditional
Present
| I | would blueberry |
| you | would blueberry |
| he;she;it | would blueberry |
| we | would blueberry |
| you | would blueberry |
| they | would blueberry |
Perfect
| I | would have blueberried |
| you | would have blueberried |
| he;she;it | would have blueberried |
| we | would have blueberried |
| you | would have blueberried |
| they | would have blueberried |
Imperative
| you | blueberry |
| we | Let's blueberry |
| you | blueberry |
Verbs conjugated like 'blueberry'
accompany,
acetify,
acidify,
adsignify,
affy,
alacrify,
alkalify,
ally,
amnesty,
amplify,
angelify,
anglicify,
anglify,
apology,
apply,
arefy,
argufy,
astony,
atrophy,
avowtry, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'blueberry'
blackberry,
blubber,
bebury,
bemercy,
berry,
beworry,
blabber,
blevey,
blue-sky,
bluebook,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der.
5. Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁wos
6. Proto-Germanic *blēwaz
7. Proto-West Germanic *blāubor.
8. Late Latin blāvus
9. Anglo-Norman bleubor.
10. Middle English blew
11. English blue
12. Middle English berye
13. English berry
14. English blueberry
15. From blue + berry.
Sample Sentences
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We blueberried on an open flat beside the river. The ground was covered with great frosted blue globules, sweet and warm in the sunshine. [1939, Kathrene Pinkerton, Wilderness Life, Carrick and Evans (1939), page 179]
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The "white longlegged, long-necked bird" seen by your Ayer reader while she was blueberrying on the shore of a pond was either the Little Blue Heron in white phase or immature, […] [1947 August 26, Robert Wallcott, Albert Hale, “What People Talk About”, in Daily Boston Globe:]
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They had not passed again in the surrey going to the Forks, nine miles away, and none of the girls had been blueberrying among the bushes at the edge of the woods. [1951, Elizabeth Coatsworth, The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale, Pantheon, published 1951, page 62:]
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Sarah and I have been blueberrying together off and on since the summer of '64. This morning, armed with our pots and pans, we went out and picked two quarts of wild berries and then came home and made a cake. [1988, Ms. Magazine, volume 17, numbers 1-6, page 38:]
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Pointy fraise de bois went through it all with undiminished generosity (so small a plant for all that giving!) and the picking was fine, for the birds were off blueberrying and taking the late raspberries just as they ripened. [2000, Robert Dash, Notes from Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 2000, →ISBN, page 152:]
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On some of the richest days, when a moose stalks by or a bear is blueberrying or munching hazelnuts outside, I think of my house as a bathysphere suspended in the wilderness. [2000, Edward Hoagland, “A Peaceable Kingdom”, in Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life, The Lyons Press, →ISBN, page 61:]
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"Come, Aunt Flo. I'll show you where we go blueberrying. Last year we got almost a bushel of berries, and Papa says they should be ripe now." [2002, Loretta Ellsworth, The Shrouding Woman, Henry Holt and Company, published 2002, →ISBN:]
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We decided to go blueberrying one day up in our hills. We grabbed our blueberry cans, hitched them to our belts, and headed for the blueberries. [2002, Lois Kenyon Pesanelli, His Hand Upon Me for Miracles, 1st Books Library (2002), page 14]