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 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.
- noun Same as
pirry . - noun Jewels; precious stones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A fermented liquor made from pears; pear cider.
- noun obsolete A suddent squall. See
pirry .
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
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English pere, from Old French pere, from Vulgar Latin *pirātum, from Latin pirum, pear.]
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From Middle English, peirrie; from Middle French, peré; from (assumed) Vulgar Latin, piratum; from Latin, pirum.
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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