Noun: sherry
| Singular | sherry |
| Plural | sherries |
Sample Sentences
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He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam. [1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind:]
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They produce several quality sherries.
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Would you like a sherry?
Nouns inflected like sherry
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Back-formation of earlier sherris (interpreted as a plural), from Spanish (vino de) Xeres (“wine of Xeres”), Xeres being the former spelling of Spanish Jerez (pronounced /ʃeˈɾes/ in early modern Andalusian Spanish).
Verbs referencing "sherry"
Dutch Nouns
sherry, Finnish Nouns
sherry, Icelandic Nouns
sérrí.