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  • noun Plural form of sherbert.

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Examples

  • "The sauce", "sherberts" - funny how many synonyms for being drunk we employ.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2012

  • In their aptly-titled volume, Ices: the Definitive Guide, Caroline and Robin Weir divide ices into creams (ice cream and gelati), water ices (sorbets and granitas) and hybrids, with a foot in both camps (parfaits and sherberts).

    How to make perfect lemon sorbet 2011

  • Yes, I did down load the podcast and in fact I have now listened to it again before commenting as I had had a few Friday night sherberts when I first listened.

    Another 90 Minutes of Fun 2006

  • Surely, Oborne had been on the sherberts when he wrote that piece.

    Surely not Mandelson!! Glyn Davies 2007

  • Surely, Oborne had been on the sherberts when he wrote that piece.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Glyn Davies 2007

  • And we do receive some sheepish "morning after" emails from readers who admit to having had a few too many sherberts the night before.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2012

  • They next brought in sweet-smelling salves, which I rubbed over me, and then repaired to the hummaum, where I found a royal dress, in which the eunuchs arrayed me; and after perfuming me with incense of sandal wood, brought in confections, coffee, and sherberts of various sorts, with which I refreshed myself.

    The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 04 Anonymous 1791

  • They next brought in sweet-smelling salves, which I rubbed over me, and then repaired to the hummaum, where I found a royal dress, in which the eunuchs arrayed me; and after perfuming me with incense of sandal wood, brought in confections, coffee, and sherberts of various sorts, with which I refreshed myself.

    The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete Anonymous 1791

  • Agripina needs a loan of 2000 soles to buy sugar, corn and sherberts.

    Kiva Loans 2010

  • Funnily enough, these people often tour the pubs and clubs because people are more inclined to donate after a few sherberts (just like the pre match imbibers perhaps?)

    Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2010

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