Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fermented, often effervescent beverage made from pears.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pirry . - noun Jewels; precious stones.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A suddent squall. See
pirry . - noun A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
fermented alcoholic beverage made frompears ; somewhat analogous tocider .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States philosopher (1876-1957)
- noun a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider
- noun 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)
- noun 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
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Examples
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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.
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January 15th, 2010 at 2: 19 pm tombaker says: perry is a creepy simp.
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I have just passed through that hair and beauty shop in perry barr.
Birmingham - Press Reports Laban 2005
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I have just passed through that hair and beauty shop in perry barr.
Archive 2005-10-23 Laban 2005
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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.
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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." Ann Althouse 2008
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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 2000
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An agreeable beverage, called perry, is made from pears, and the varieties which are least fit for eating make the best perry.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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An agreeable beverage, called perry, is made from pears, and the varieties which are least fit for eating make the best perry.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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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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asativum commented on the word perry
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.
November 14, 2007
sionnach commented on the word perry
I bet Commodore Perry enjoyed a babycham too.
November 14, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word perry
"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
June 6, 2010
reesetee commented on the word perry
Cooked rooster??
June 15, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word perry
Yes, actually there's a comment about this on cock ale. That capital-letters thing is really crimping my game.
June 16, 2010
reesetee commented on the word perry
Just read it. *barf*
June 16, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word perry
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.
June 16, 2010
reesetee commented on the word perry
Fine, then. See you around.
Some people....
*sips whale blubber ale*
June 17, 2010