DCHP-2

bumbleberry DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — especially British Columbia and Alberta, Food

  a mixture of berries, sometimes containing apples and rhubarb, generally used as a pie filling.

  Type: 1. Origin — Bumbleberry is used most frequently in Canada (see Chart 1), most often in British Columbia and Alberta (see Chart 2). It is not listed in any non-Canadian dictionaries from the standard set. COD-2 writes that the word may come from "English dialect bumble, = rosehip, blackberry, possibly deformation of BRAMBLE". The name is used by some as a marker of national identity (see the 1992 quotation).