Huckleberry

[snoogins]

What does it mean when someone say's " I'll be your huckleberry"?

[kev100]

I've always taken it to mean friend

possible from close friends Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, story by Mark Twain

[Quizmonster]

It possibly does mean 'friend', but in relatively recent US colloquial language, 'huckleberry' meant 'sweetheart', though in earlier times it meant 'someone of no consequence'! Earlier still, the word was used to imply something valueless. Americans seem to have used it in much the same way as we British used 'peppercorn', as in the phrase "a peppercorn rent". Perhaps it all has to do with "whispering sweet nothings"?

[kev100]

Here's a couple of links

http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1414348

scroll down on this one

http://www.wordorigins.org/wordorh.htm

[ALLO]

watch the movie tombstone. i think it means like the one you want. the guy your looking for.

[Beatrice]

It must be a shortening for huckleberry friend, from the song Moon River