sherbert
IPA: ʃˈɝbɝt
Root Word: Sherbert
noun
- A surname.
- (chiefly US, sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of sherbet (“food of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product added”) [A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.]
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Examples of "sherbert" in Sentences
- Sherbert had joined the station in 1985.
- As a I child I uses to suck up sherbert through a liquorice straw.
- You've got it all wrong in your suggestion that sherbert is obscure.
- I've never heard beer called sherbert, nor have I heard the verb form.
- Then we painted the overhang area under the window a raspberry sherbert pink.
- I except the "difference of opinion" classics such as sherbert or Welsh rarebit.
- On the other side was Nancy Mattingly, 66, a retiree in a sherbert-green tracksuit.
- They immediately gave cute names to the new Daleks (take a guess which one they named "sherbert").
- And there was me, Ron, thinking that you were enjoying the life of Riley, and permanently on the sherbert.
- I remember the lollies called sherbert bombs we bought at the milkbar were the same sort of thing; a nasty waxy lolly filled with fizzy sherbert.
- I know "sherbert" is a colloquialism, but it is spelled "sherbet"--the other spelling isn't recognized at all by the OED or the spellchecker on this site.
- Till then I have a selection of sherbert flying saucers, some sugar-coated almonds and a few chocolate coins to pluck out of my Christmas hamper and feast on.
- "sherbert," a dubious "vermillion" (perhaps an original misspelling but so universal that Webster lists it alongside the one L spelling), and a complaint about 'til for till or until.
- There she was, all pink and pherump and pretty, selecting a grape, dusting it with sherbert, and popping it into my mouth with a fond smirk and a loving kiss that was like being hit in the face by a handful of liver-and not two minutes earlier she'd had a dinner guest trepanned before he'd even had his coffee.