Home › Words › W › whortlewhortle/ˈwɝtl̩/whortle means the whortleberry or bilberry.whortle is pronounced /ˈwɝtl̩/.EtymologyFrom Middle English hurtil, hurtle, from Old English horte (“whortleberry”) (plural hortan) but of unknown ultimate origin.nounThe whortleberry or bilberry.e.g.“[…] winding to the southward, he stopped his little nag short of the crest, and got off and looked ahead of him, from behind a tump of whortles.” — 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).