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I’m Your Huckleberry: The Meaning of Doc Holliday’s Iconic Line - OldWest
Discover the real meaning behind "I'm your huckleberry," and why the iconic line from Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone' still endures to this day.
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Snopes also confirms, its "im your huckleberry" and "Ill be your huckleberry." I know snopes... But they have Val Kilmer himself confirming it, and the script..Regretably you dont always learn something true.
View attachment 480293I’m Your Huckleberry: The Meaning of Doc Holliday’s Iconic Line - OldWest
Discover the real meaning behind "I'm your huckleberry," and why the iconic line from Doc Holliday in 'Tombstone' still endures to this day.
Did Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday Say 'I'm Your Huckle Bearer,' Not 'Huckleberry'?
The famous line from "Tombstone" has some people murmuring about the "Mandela Effect."
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Huckleberry is a common name applied to many different plants. mostly grow in the west NA. More resistant to cultivation then blueberries.
Gaylussacia baccata Black huckleberry
Vaccinium parvifolium red huckleberry
V. membranaceum also called black huckleberry
V. deliciosum. blue huckleberry.
solanum scabrum is "garden huckleberry. a nightshade.
What is the difference between them and blueberries? they look nearly identical.
Vaccinium is a large family. cranberry, blueberry, huckleberries, bilberry etc. (bilberry are European blueberries. smaller, ground hugging.)
This is a huckleberry. notice the berry. 1 berry per meristem and sepal.
this is a Blueberry. notice how the sepal branches out of the meristem into many shoots, and buds.
the common usage of Huckleberry is then of course applied to blueberries often anyway. so, some are unrelated to blueberries, some are cousins of blueberries, and very closely related, others are literally just blueberries.
Huckleberry is derived from whortleberry>hortleberry
Whortleberry being another name for bilberry.
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Snopes also confirms, its "im your huckleberry" and "Ill be your huckleberry." I know snopes... But they have Val Kilmer himself confirming it, and the script..
Did Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday Say 'I'm Your Huckle Bearer,' Not 'Huckleberry'?
The famous line from "Tombstone" has some people murmuring about the "Mandela Effect."
Huckleberry is a common name applied to many different plants. mostly grow in the west NA. More resistant to cultivation then blueberries.
Gaylussacia baccata Black huckleberry
Vaccinium parvifolium red huckleberry
V. membranaceum also called black huckleberry
V. deliciosum. blue huckleberry.
solanum scabrum is "garden huckleberry. a nightshade.
What is the difference between them and blueberries? they look nearly identical.
Vaccinium is a large family. cranberry, blueberry, huckleberries, bilberry etc. (bilberry are European blueberries. smaller, ground hugging.)
This is a huckleberry. notice the berry. 1 berry per meristem and sepal.
this is a Blueberry. notice how the sepal branches out of the meristem into many shoots, and buds.
the common usage of Huckleberry is then of course applied to blueberries often anyway.
Huckleberry is derived from whortleberry>hortleberry
Whortleberry being another name for bilberry.
I love etymology. Huckleberries were also something insignificant. Mark Twain called his character Huckleberry Finn to denote his lower status compared to Tom Sawyer. There were phrases that compared huckleberries to persimmons because persimmons were so large. A common one was "That's a huckleberry above my persimmon" which meant something was beyond your reach. Most likely "I'm your huckleberry" originally meant you were the last piece someone needed to accomplish their task (the huckleberry above their persimmon) which then lead to being 'the right man for the job', or a sidekick. That last sentence is my own conclusion, I never found a real etymologist who bridged that final gap.
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