noun
- a small dark blue edible berry; bilberry or huckleberry
Usage: chiefly British; dialectal
Examples
- The children gathered whortles from the bushes on the hillside.
- She made a delicious pie with fresh whortles from the moor.
- The purple stains on his fingers showed he had been picking whortles.
- Wild whortles grow abundantly in the Scottish highlands.
- Grandmother’s whortle jam was famous throughout the village.