Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A frozen dessert made mainly of fruit juice or fruit purée, usually with sugar and milk or cream.
- noun Chiefly British A usually fruit-flavored effervescent powder, eaten as candy or made into a drink.
- noun Australian An alcoholic beverage, especially beer.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A favorite cooling drink of the East, made of fruit-juices diluted with water, and variously sweetened and flarvored. It is cooled with snow when this can be procured.
- noun A water-ice, variously flavored.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways
- noun A flavored water ice.
- noun A preparation of bicarbonate of soda, tartaric acid, sugar, etc., variously flavored, for making an effervescing drink; -- called also
sherbet powder .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A food of frozen
fruit juice with adairy product such as milk added; asorbet with dairyingredients . - noun A
powder made ofbicarbonate of soda , sugar and flavourings, intended to be eaten alone or mixed with water to make a drink.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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His relationship with Imam Abu Hanifah was quite complex; and he later had him arrested, and had him killed by poisoned sherbet the word sherbet is from the Arabic word sharabat--beverages according to some accounts.
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The sherbet is good; she has mixed it so that the tartness of the fruit still tells beneath the syrup. next »
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However, this sherbet is so good that, in my opinion, it is worth enjoying more than once a year.
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However, this sherbet is so good that, in my opinion, it is worth enjoying more than once a year.
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This piece featured pretty partnering by men in breeches and women in short sherbet-green tutus, but ultimately it seemed to be about the women in California Ballet and about the company's future.
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It seemed too creamy to be called sherbet, but chef/co-owner Veronica Laramie explained that if it contains dairy and eggs, it's ice cream; if it contains dairy and no eggs, it's sherbet.
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It seemed too creamy to be called sherbet, but chef/co-owner Veronica Laramie explained that if it contains dairy and eggs, it's ice cream; if it contains dairy and no eggs, it's sherbet.
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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.
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Traditional sherbet, which is Arabic in origin, is a frozen mixture of sweetened fruit juice and water and occasionally, wine.
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Traditional sherbet, which is Arabic in origin, is a frozen mixture of sweetened fruit juice and water and occasionally, wine.
arby commented on the word sherbet
My stepmother pronounces it sherbert. She's from Texas so I cut her a little slack.
July 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word sherbet
Interesting! Most people in this area (mid-Atlantic) pronounce it that way too.
July 25, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word sherbet
How's it supposed to be pronounced? -Miss Mid-Atlantic
July 25, 2007
uselessness commented on the word sherbet
Same way it looks. "SHER bet." Silly. :-)
July 25, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word sherbet
Sher bet. Hahahahahah. You can't be serious. People actually pronounced sherbet. Like a bet?
July 25, 2007
uselessness commented on the word sherbet
You bet. It's a sure bet.
July 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word sherbet
Nope. Gotta go with jennarenn on this. Sherbert. Extra R. It's a bona fide alternate spelling/pronunciation in American Heritage. (Which should be called Uniter Heritage, I suppose.)
Where's chained_bear when you need a good sherbet/sorbet argument?
July 25, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word sherbet
I know! Send him our love, and tell him that I'm sending along that cookie recipe that he asked for. ;)
July 25, 2007
reesetee commented on the word sherbet
Right. The cookie recipe. How could I have forgotten?
July 25, 2007
arby commented on the word sherbet
Yeah but if you look at the derivation from sorbet, where's that extra r coming from, eh? - Canadian wannabe
August 1, 2007