sherry
/ˈʃɛɹi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.
Uncountable
name
A female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "They produce several quality sherries."
- "Would you like a sherry?"
- "Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and an M.I.T. professor who worked with Weizenbaum, coined the term the “Eliza Effect” to describe people convincing themselves that a technology that seemed human was more intelligent, perceptive and complex than it actually was."
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).
Origin
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