Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fermented, often effervescent beverage made from pears.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fermented liquor, similar to cider, but made from the juice of pears. It is extensively produced in England, but is little known in America.
- n. Same as pirry.
- n. Jewels; precious stones.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
- n. obsolete A suddent squall. See pirry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. United States philosopher (1876-1957)
- n. a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider
- n. United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819)
- n. United States admiral who led a naval expedition to Japan and signed a treaty in 1854 opening up trade relations between United States and Japan; brother of Oliver Hazard Perry (1794-1858)
Etymologies
- From Middle English, peirrie; from Middle French, peré; from (assumed) Vulgar Latin, piratum; from Latin, pirum. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English pere, from Old French pere, from Vulgar Latin *pirātum, from Latin pirum, pear. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“January 15th, 2010 at 2: 19 pm tombaker says: perry is a creepy simp.”
“August 18th, 2009 4: 29 pm ET perry is a buster, with no insight at all, he is not for the american people. i hope he lose his seat.”
“I have just passed through that hair and beauty shop in perry barr.”
“i think rick perry is a domestic terrorist. i also think he should be declared an enemy combatant, water boarded …. errr i mean “enhanced interrogated” on national television as an example.”
“Apparently the canon of authority on law, morality, and warfare is vested in the brain of one anonymous commenter called perry masonmint.”
"It was a time of uncertainty, hope and change. The summer of love."
“Now that having been said, we've been encouraged in recent times by the modest success of what is called the perry Review of United States policy towards”
Media gateway - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
“An agreeable beverage, called perry, is made from pears, and the varieties which are least fit for eating make the best perry.”
“Tuesday, January 12, 2010 from barrington we made our way through more national parks, taking in some great scenery and hikes as we headed for the blue mountains, which would be our last wilderness stop before hitting sydney!! here we stayed at a campsite called perry's lookdown which is the start point for a 2. 5km hike (one way) into an adjoining valley. i know 2.5 km sounds like a stroll in the park but this was a hard ass Lilianfels Avenue, Echo Point Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia Apex ”
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“Yes | No | Report from minigunner111 wrote 20 weeks 4 days ago that aerosmiths joe perry harrasses and tortures helpless animals (hunts) +2 Good Comment?”
“Sixty winter ales, plus cider and perry, free soft drinks for drivers and food to wash down those quality local brews.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘perry’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Wort to the wise
Brewing terms
wort, gruit, metheglin, mead, perry, mulsum, finings, irish moss, malt, hops, morat, melomel and 43 more...
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ROT13 Pairs
Nabbed from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT-13#Letter_games_and_net_culture: words that become other existing words (or failing that, acronyms) when a Caesar shift of 13 places is applied to them.
aha, nun, ant, nag, balk, onyx, bar, one, barf, ones, be, or and 64 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Only on Wordie/Wordnik
Okay, mostly on Wordie. But it's more fun here anyway.
brannock device, polari, stupidhead, in toto, nounal, flustrated, stuffocate, firkin, full-assed, placeholder name, pro-text, cheesequake and 408 more...
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My Modern Job in the Past
Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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The Color Perple
Words that start with "per."
perhaps, perchance, pervade, persnickety, pervert, persia, person, permeate, percent, perch, percolate, perky and 40 more...
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Archaic (or sounds that way)
goldwine, scop, skald, tenterhook, wassail, mazer, metheglin, cyser, pyment, perry, heresiarch, palatinate and 37 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Fine, then. See you around.
Some people....
*sips whale blubber ale*
Jun 17, 2010
chained_bear Listen. I don't know where you come from or what you drink normally, reesetee, but if you think something called "cock ale" would taste better with something other than rooster in it, I don't want to drink with you. Jun 16, 2010
reesetee Just read it. *barf* Jun 16, 2010
chained_bear Yes, actually there's a comment about this on cock ale. That capital-letters thing is really crimping my game. Jun 16, 2010
reesetee Cooked rooster?? Jun 15, 2010
chained_bear "The English brewed perry or mobby from pears, and mead and methelin from fermented honey. Aquavit was a distilled ale, like a whiskey, based on fermented grain. Mum was brewed from wheat; juniper ale was flavored with juniper berries, bay leaves, coriander, and caraway seeds. Buttered ale was ale flavored with cinnamon, sugar, and butter. Cock ale was a mixture of ale and wine, steeped with raisins, cloves, and its namesake, a cooked rooster."
—Sarah Hand Meacham, Every Home a Distillery: Alcohol, Gender, and Technology in the Colonial Chesapeake (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), 11 Jun 6, 2010
sionnach I bet Commodore Perry enjoyed a babycham too. Nov 13, 2007
asativum Hm. I was thinking more of the beverage made by fermenting pear juice -- ie, a kind of cider made from pears. But perhaps Mr. Perry the philosopher indulged in perry. Nov 13, 2007