huckleberry

noun

Pronunciation: /ˈhʌkl̩ˌbɛɹi/ / /ˈhʌkl̩b(ə)ɹi/

Etymology: Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.

A small round fruit of a dark blue or red color, of several plants in the related genera Vaccinium and Gaylussacia.
“I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.”
A shrub growing this fruit.
A small amount, a short distance, as in the phrase huckleberry above a persimmon.
“Porter preferred prose to poetry. Prose seemed to him to be a concrete, practical form of expression. But poetry, as he informed a poet who signed his name “Evergreen,” was “a huckleberry beyond us.””
A person of little consequence.
“1999, Paul Lieberstein, "De-Kahnstructing Henry" (King of the Hill TV episode} You got such a bug in your bonnet about phones? Check this out. I call France on this phone whenever I want. France, Europe, huckleberry.”
The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.
“I'm your huckleberry.”

Etymology: Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.