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s | dingleberry |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun dingleberry is

vaccinium erythrocarpum'', the southern mountain cranberry“dingleberry n” listed [http://booksgooglecouk/books?id=var2t4bh7nkc&pg=pa73 on page 73] of the ''(dictionary of american regional english) by frederic gomes cassidy and joan houston hall (1985; [http://wwwhupharvardedu/ harvard university press]; isbn 0674205111, 9780674205116).

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    dingleberry

    English

    (wikipedia dingleberry) (Vaccinium erythrocarpum) (Vaccinium erythrocarpum)

    Noun

    (dingleberries)
  • Vaccinium erythrocarpum'', the Southern mountain cranberry.“dingleberry?n” listed on page 73] of the ''(Dictionary of American Regional English) by Frederic Gomes Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall (1985; [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/ Harvard University Press; ISBN 0674205111, 9780674205116)
  • * 1937 , US Government Printing Office, Range Plant Handbook :
    • dingleberries , or mountain-cranberries (Huge'ria'', syn. ''Oxycoccoi'des ), cranberries (Oxycoc'cus)
  • * 1959 , Gordon Webber, What end but love :
    • Helen sat on the ground crumbling hard lumps of clay between her fingers, and tried to imagine the green place in the swamp where the dingleberries grew.
  • * {{quote-book, 1988, S.P. Vander Kloet, The Genus Vaccinium in North America, isbn=0660130378 citation
    • , passage=Vaccinium erythrocarpum , the dingleberry , sometimes produces berries of excellent flavor, which are used locally for jellies; Uphof (1968) reports that this species has been recommended for cultivation.}}
  • (dated, manufacturing) Any residual irregularity following processing
  • * {{quote-us-patent, 1951, Charles Diehl, Method for Welding a Joint, 2747065, page=3 citation
    • , passage=The contour of the root bead is very irregular and solidified drops of metal, "cherries" or "dingleberries ," extend therefrom evidencing burn-throughs.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 1966, May 20, , Stymied by Seniority, Time citation
    • , passage=That still left the problem of deciding on the "dingleberries "—the employees who would be exempt from seniority restrictions because of "special skills and outstanding abilities." }}
  • * {{quote-us-patent, 1967, M.R. Calton, Welding of Dispersion-Strengthened Alloys, 3477117, page=6 citation
    • , passage=It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries ." }}
  • (slang) A small piece of feces clumped to hair around the anus.
  • (slang) A stupid person.

    • Synonyms

    * (cranberry) arando, bearberry * (stupid person) idiot, moron * (piece of faeces) (Australia) dag, (Australia) dags

    References