sherryn.1
/ˈʃɛri/, U.S. /ˈʃɛri/ 1. figurative.1619 Pasquils Palinodia (title page) A pleasant pynte of Poeticall Sherry.
a. Originally, the still white wine made near Xeres (now Jerez de la Frontera, a town in Andalusia, near Cadiz); in modern use, extended to a class of Spanish fortified white wines of similar character, and (usually with prefixed word, as Californian sherry, Cape sherry) to wines made elsewhere in imitation of Spanish sherry. Also, a wine of this kind.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > Spanish wines > [noun]
Alicantc1500
tent1542
hollock1576
tinto1599
Malaga1608
sherry1608
Peter-see-me1617
arrope1622
steelback1633
Peter1679
mountain wine1700
mountain Malaga1705
mountain1710
benecarlo1734
Pedro Ximenez1801
Algarbe1823
Valdepeñas1832
Rioja1863
Tarragona1888
margarita1903
rosado1956
Albariño1972
Spanish1977
cava1978
Tempranillo1989
the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry
sherris1600
sherry1608
Bristol milk1644
Xeres winea1661
1608 T. Middleton Mad World, my Masters v. sig. H Some Shirry for my Lords players there.
1617 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 224 One other rundlett of shery.
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. iv. 80 in Wks. II Cok. Sack? you said but ee'n now it should be Sherry. Pvp. Io: Why so it is; sherry, sherry, sherry.
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 141 Those kinds that our merchants carry over are those onely that grow upon the sea-side, as Malagas, sheries, tents.
1669 W. Charleton Mysterie of Vintners in Two Disc. 196 They sell decayed Xeres, vulgarly Sherry, for Lusenna wine.
1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 35 Excellent Wines, especially red Muscatels (which we call Luke Sherry).
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 560 He drunk a little tea and some sherry.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 331 Some Sherree.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 291 Waiters..are placing decanters of Sherry down the tables.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxviii. 349 Most celebrated growths of ports, sherries, and claret wines.
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. x. 125 Some rare old sherry.
1897 ‘H. S. Merriman’ In Kedar's Tents xiii. 145 The Colonel had an English friend who spoke so—one engaged in the sherry in Xeres.
1958 A. L. Simon Dict. Wines 146/1 Sherry is made from the best wine of each vintage, to which some Brandy is added, after which it is kept for many years with the best wine of other vintages.
1967 Times 1 Aug. 6/5 ‘Sherry’ means a wine coming from the Jerez district of Spain. The Court, giving judgment,..decided that it would be unjust now to restrain Vine Products Ltd...from using the expressions ‘British sherry’, ‘English sherry’, ‘Cyprus sherry’, ‘South African sherry’, and ‘Australian sherry’, used for certain wines in England.
b. In the names of mixed drinks, sherry-and-seltzer, sherry-and-bitters.
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1870 H. Smart Race for Wife i. 11 Men are congregating about the refreshment buffet for another sherry-and-seltzer.
1884 R. C. Praed Zéro iii Will you come in and have a sherry and bitters.
c. A glass or drink of sherry.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sherry > glass of sherry
whitewash1853
sherry1924
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ix. 192 Will you have a sherry?
1979 M. McCarthy Cannibals & Missionaries i. 19 He had been counting on picking Gus's brains..over a sherry or a bourbon.
2. ‘A small wine-glass of the size and form commonly used for sherry and similar wines’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 937 Table glass services... 12 Sherries... 12 Ports... 12 Clarets [etc.].
1925 Heal & Son Catal.: Glass Table glass... Champagne..Claret..Sherry..Port..Liqueur..Tumbler.
1974 Times 5 Apr. 12/3 The goblet is £4.25... A claret is £3.15 and a sherry/port £2.95.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. Simple attributive.
a.
sherry-bottle n.
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1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxv. 218 The Sherry-bottle.
sherry-butt n.
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1888 Sat. Rev. 9 June 688/1 The juice as it runs out is caught and transferred to tubs, sherry hogsheads and sherry butts.
sherry-case n.
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1849 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour v, in New Monthly Mag. Feb. 151 With a formidable-looking sherry-case, in the shape of a horn, at his saddle.
sherry decanter n.
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1950 J. Cannan Murder Included vii. 164 A tray with two glasses and a sherry decanter.
1977 G. McDonald Confess, Fletch xxiii. 104 There were Scotch bottles, bourbon bottles, gin bottles, sherry and port decanters.
sherry-glass n.
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1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 26 There was only one sherry-glass broken.
sherry trifle n. [trifle n. 6b]
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1951 H. Smith Master Bk. Dessert Pies & Sweets viii. 279 Sherry Trifle, arrange slices of Swiss roll at the bottom of a round glass dish and sprinkle liberally with sherry.
1979 K. Bonfiglioli After You with Pistol xxii. 176 Two helpings of sherry-trifle.
sherry-wine n.
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1785 J. Bentham Mem. & Corr. in Wks. (1843) X. 160 Good Sherry-wine.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. xvi. 215 You may have seen the Xerez or sherry wine.
1889 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 124 Light sherry-wine color.
sherry-wine colour n.
b.
sherry-drinker n.
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1887 J. R. P. Berkeley in W. I. Knapp Life G. Borrow (1899) II. 101 Among his peculiarities was his dislike..of Sherry drinkers.
sherry-grower n.
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1900 M. H. Spielmann John Ruskin 17 Peter Domecq, the great sherry-grower of Xerez.
c.
sherry-style n.
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1960 Times 3 Oct. (Wine Trade Suppl.) p. iv/5 In the United States there is a domestic wine business which last year turned out..20 million gallons of sherry-style wine.
sherry-type n.
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1962 Times 3 Feb. 9/4 A glass of sherry-type wine.
C2.
sherry-bar n. a bar at which sherry is the principal drink sold.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar > other bars
public bar1654
American bar1856
wine room1865
last chance saloon1869
four-ale1883
private bar1892
saloon bar1902
cocktail bar1908
cocktail lounge1934
porter bar1935
lounge bar1937
wine bar1938
dive bar1940
gay bar1947
open bar1947
piano bar1947
sherry-bar1951
public1957
leather bar1961
private1963
ouzeri1964
karaoke bar1977
1951 G. Greene End of Affair v. ii. 181 Waterbury was waiting in a sherry-bar off Tottenham Court Road.
sherry morning n. a morning sherry party.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > drinking-party
potationa1500
symposium1711
wine-party1829
shout1854
wine1857
grog-fight1864
punch1871
grog1888
beer drink1895
cocktail party1903
cocktails1922
jollo1934
sherry party1936
shebeen1943
sundowner1944
wine and cheese (party, etc.)1961
kegger1966
sherry morning1976
1976 Milton Keynes Express 16 July 2/3 A sherry morning on Sunday brought in £98.32 for Olney Town Cricket Club funds.
sherry party n. a party at which sherry is the principal drink served.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > drinking-party
potationa1500
symposium1711
wine-party1829
shout1854
wine1857
grog-fight1864
punch1871
grog1888
beer drink1895
cocktail party1903
cocktails1922
jollo1934
sherry party1936
shebeen1943
sundowner1944
wine and cheese (party, etc.)1961
kegger1966
sherry morning1976
1936 Cherwell 7 Mar. 158/2 A tendency to throw sherry parties and get a little drunk.
1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy xi. 239 Christmas was hardly noticed apart from a rather battered sherry party.
C3. With reference to colour.
sherry-bay adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > yellowish brown
yellow-dun1593
honey-coloured1603
cinnamon-coloured1679
cinnamon1685
lurid1767
rhubarb1792
tombac-brown1794
sherry-bay1856
khaki1863
khaki coloured1879
golden oak1883
rhubarby1885
crotal1901
brown-gold1909
Sahara1923
safari1934
1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock i. 28 Mr. Stirling Craufurd's sherry-bay horse, The Shaver.
sherry colour n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > pale yellow
gullnessa1300
butter colour1629
wheat-colour1711
straw colour1737
jonquil1791
straw-yellow1794
straw1799
wax-yellow1805
sulphur-yellow1816
wax-colour1854
daffodil1855
sulphur-colour1866
sherry colour1871
tea rose1872
mastic1890
wheat1915
sulphur1924
straw-gold1963
buttermilk1977
1871 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (new ed.) 147 A vinous liquid, having a golden sherry colour.
1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. xiii. 90 Enough to give a sherry colour to the collodion.
sherry-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow
gull13..
flaxen?1523
palew1547
straw-coloured1585
branlie1589
straw colour1589
flaxy1634
festucine1646
sulphureous1656
flaxenish1661
butter colour1665
strawy1668
straw-yellow1794
bombycinous1796
sulphur-coloured1811
sherry-yellow1813
sulphur-yellow1816
bombasic1825
straw1842
wax-coloured1842
stramineous1845
maize-coloured1852
daffodil1855
daw1856
flax1873
sherry-coloured1875
mastic1890
sulpho-chromic1895
ochroid1897
wheat-coloured1898
sulphurous1899
sulphury1900
tea rose1900
straw-pale1922
1875 T. H. Huxley & H. N. Martin Course Pract. Biol. App. (1877) 270 A dark sherry-coloured solution.
1894 Season 10 47/2 Flecked with sherry and rose-coloured strands.
sherry-red adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > yellowish-red
claret1547
roan1558
sherry-red1898
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. ii. 65 From dark brown to sherry-red.
sherry-yellow adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > pale yellow
gull13..
flaxen?1523
palew1547
straw-coloured1585
branlie1589
straw colour1589
flaxy1634
festucine1646
sulphureous1656
flaxenish1661
butter colour1665
strawy1668
straw-yellow1794
bombycinous1796
sulphur-coloured1811
sherry-yellow1813
sulphur-yellow1816
bombasic1825
straw1842
wax-coloured1842
stramineous1845
maize-coloured1852
daffodil1855
daw1856
flax1873
sherry-coloured1875
mastic1890
sulpho-chromic1895
ochroid1897
wheat-coloured1898
sulphurous1899
sulphury1900
tea rose1900
straw-pale1922
1813 Ann. Reg., Chron. 102 Boots with sherry-yellow-tassels.
C4. In names of drinks:† sherry sack n. Obsolete see sack n.3 b, cf. sherris n.; also figurative. See also sherry-cobbler n.
sherry-negus n. see negus n.2
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > negus
negus1743
sherry-negus?1863
?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man i. 7 Two Sherry negus, two shillings.
1907 Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 3/3 Who drank sherry-negus.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > fortified wine, Madeira wine, and sack > [noun] > sack
sack1531
sherris-sack1600
sherry sack1619
1619 Pasquils Palinodia sig. A3 My Muse..weares a Corslet of old Sherry Sacke.
1677 Lady Hatton in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. (Camden) 148 All the sherie sack.
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† sherryn.2
slang.
A scurry.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [noun] > haste > a hurry
hurry1660
hurry-scurry1753
sherry1821
whew1905
1821 Life D. Haggart 37 The shirry became general—I was run to my full speed.
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† sherryadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Under the influence of sherry; drunk.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > with specific drink
wine-drunkenOE
in wine1594
wine-belly1603
wine-sprung1633
wined1640
citroned1754
genevered1755
sherry1770
toddied1842
beer-bemuddled1848
cocktailed1856
pinko1917
beered-up1933
1770 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 559/1 To express the Condition of an Honest Fellow, and no Flincher, under the Effects of good Fellowship, it is said that he is..Sherry.
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sherryv.1
dialect.
intransitive. To scurry, to run away; retreat hastily. Also with off.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee
fleec825
afleeeOE
atrina1000
atfleec1000
to run awayOE
to turn to or into flighta1225
to turn the ridgec1225
atrenc1275
atshakec1275
to give backa1300
flemec1300
startc1330
to take (on oneself) the flighta1500
to take the back upon oneselfa1500
fly1523
to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530
to flee one's way1535
to take to one's heels1548
flought?1567
fuge1573
to turn taila1586
to run off1628
to take flighta1639
refugea1641
to run for it1642
to take leg1740
to give (also take) leg-bail1751
bail1775
sherry1788
to pull foot1792
fugitate1830
to tail off (out)1830
to take to flight1840
to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845
guy1879
to give leg (or legs)1883
rabbit1887
to do a guy1889
high-tail1908
to have it on one's toes1958
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) To Sherry, to run away: sherry off.
1821 Life D. Haggart 36 He went into an entry, as I shirry'd past him.
1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 180 You've been long enough, sherry.
c1874 R. E. Leader in S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield (1888) (at cited word) Now, my lad, sherry.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Sherry-off, to run off, or retreat hastily.
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sherryv.2
1. transitive. To supply with sherry, to give sherry to. nonce-word.
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1909 ‘Q’ True Tilda xxi. 294 Nursed by a careful butler..a single bottle will sherry twelve guests.
2. To add sherry to. Chiefly as ˈsherried adj.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > season [verb (transitive)] > flavour in other ways
saffronc1386
milk?a1565
hop1572
juniperate1605
beginger1611
macea1634
caryophyllate1651
fruit1736
onion1755
mustard1851
clove1883
lemon1883
herb1922
sherry1970
1970 Guardian 15 Apr. 10/2 A heavily sherried trifle.
1977 D. J. Elliott in D. Marcus Best Irish Short Stories 2 156 They ate prawns in aspic, sherried.
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