What does im your huckleberry mean

[gospel micah]

Howdy what does im your huckleberry mean.Does anyone know.

[River City John]

Use your computer to do your own research. Google 'huckleberry'.
Yer a daisey if ya don't.

[Col. Riddles]

It means, "I'm the right man for the job". "I'll get er done", etc etc.

[Deadeye Don]

: Where did this come from what does it mean? It was used in a movie.

From many undocumented guesses, conjectures and speculations!

The phrase is on many top ten lists of favorite quotes from Hollywood films:
"I'll be your huckleberry": Doc Holliday to Wyatt Earp in Tombstone. It was the WAY he said it. Great flick!!!

Anyway,
The phrase has ties to Arthurian lore. A Knight, coming to the service of a damsel would lower his lance and receive a huckleberry garland from the lady ( or kingdom) he would be defending. Therefore, "I am your huckleberry" may well have been spoken to the Earps and the statement's meaning may be "I am your champion".



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Re: Huckleberry ESC 04/01/00 (0)

This explanation sounds about as good as any other.  So there you go Micah,  now you have 2 possible meanings.  Safe shooting.  Deadeye.

[Abilene]

On Texas Jacks website, on the page where they sell the "I'm Your Huckleberry" bumperstickers, it says:

"I'll be your Huckleberry" was used most recently in the movie Tombstone. Doc Holiday told Johnny Ringo, I'm your Huckleberry", meaning he would play his game, whatever it was. It all started with Tom Sawyer who had a friend named Huckleberry Finn. Huck was Tom's buddy and would do anything for, or with him; from life threatening to fun. Let everyone know you are a sporting person."

[Stump Water]

One more time...


What it means is easy enough. To be one's huckleberry — usually as the phrase I'm your huckleberry — is to be just the right person for a given job, or a willing executor of some commission. Where it comes from needs a bit more explaining.

First a bit of botanical history. When European settlers arrived in the New World, they found several plants that provided small, dark-coloured sweet berries. They reminded them of the English bilberry and similar fruits and they gave them one of the dialect terms they knew for them, hurtleberry, whose origin is unknown (though some say it has something to do with hurt, from the bruised colour of the berries; a related British dialect form is whortleberry). Very early on — at the latest 1670 — this was corrupted to huckleberry.

As huckleberries are small, dark and rather insignificant, in the early part of the nineteenth century the word became a synonym for something humble or minor, or a tiny amount. An example from 1832: "He was within a huckleberry of being smothered to death". Later on it came to mean somebody inconsequential. Mark Twain borrowed some aspects of these ideas to name his famous character, Huckleberry Finn. His idea, as he told an interviewer in 1895, was to establish that he was a boy "of lower extraction or degree" than Tom Sawyer.

Also around the 1830s, we see the same idea of something small being elaborated and bombasted in the way so typical of the period to make the comparison a huckleberry to a persimmon, the persimmon being so much larger that it immediately establishes the image of something tiny against something substantial. There's also a huckleberry over one's persimmon, something just a little bit beyond one's reach or abilities; an example is in David Crockett: His Life and Adventures by John S C Abbott, of 1874: "This was a hard business on me, for I could just barely write my own name. But to do this, and write the warrants too, was at least a huckleberry over my persimmon".

Quite how I'm your huckleberry came out of all that with the sense of the man for the job isn't obvious. It seems that the word came to be given as a mark of affection or comradeship to one's partner or sidekick. There is often an identification of oneself as a willing helper or assistant about it, as here in True to Himself, by Edward Stratemeyer, dated 1900: " 'I will pay you for whatever you do for me.' 'Then I'm your huckleberry. Who are you and what do you want to know?' ". Despite the obvious associations, it doesn't seem to derive directly from Mark Twain's books.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-huc1.htm

[Deadeye Don]

Now that Micah has at least 3 explanations,  I am sure he is thorougly confused and may plan on doing his own research from now on!!   

[Marshal Deadwood]

I thought it was from the TV series 'The X-Files' were Fox Mulder told the greyish captain of an alien ship,,,'Im 'A' Huckleberry in an effort to pass himself off as plant life and avoid abduction.

   

Marshal Deadwood    * whos Doc Holiday ?

[GunClick Rick]

It means you are Augie Doggie's dad. Dat's my boy ova dere

[Delmonico]

It means you are Augie Doggie's dad. Dat's my boy ova dere

WWHHD

(What Would Hucleberry Hound Do)

[Mustang Gregg]

My idee was that he actually meant HACKLE-BEARER, though "Southern-drawled" out by Doc.
A hackle is a handle on the side of an 1800's coffin for a means to carry it.
A bearer is the guy who carries it (a pallbearer today).

So Doc was meanin' to kill Ringo & carry him to his grave.

WHATCHA PONDERIN'??----Mustang Gregg's thoughts only.

MG

[The Elderly Kid]

The Twain tie-in wouldn't work for "Tombstone" anyway. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in 1885 - four years after the events of the film.

[Delmonico]

Why wouldn't it, the Cartwrights carried 1892 Winchesters in pre-Civil War Nevada?

[Will Dearborn]

Don't mess with Hoss.  Carry on.


*snicker*

[Delmonico]

But what I want to know is why Little Joe didn't wear a vest?  That is the big mystery no one can answer.  

BTW did you know Hosse's brother flew Corsairs with Pappy Boyington?  Yep he's there evertime they take off on my TV on reruns.

[W. Cyrus Tolman]

But what I want to know is why Little Joe didn't wear a vest?  That is the big mystery no one can answer.  

They couldn't find one that fit?

[Delmonico]

I thought maybe it was a symbol of manhood in the family and he hadn't earned it yet.

[gospel micah]

Howdy what was the name of the show hosses brother was in.

[Arcey]

Always thought it burnt up when he set the map afire.

[Delmonico]

Maw Dirk Blocker shot it up in "Black Sheep Squadron."