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  • adjective Having characteristics of sherbet

Etymologies

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sherbet +‎ -y

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Examples

  • A sherbety shade of pink, with a hint of red and orange zest, honeysuckle is seen by designers as a pick-me-up at a time when many people have had their fill of misfortune.

    The New Hue for 2011 Christina Binkley 2010

  • Other offerings include Schlenkerla Rauchbier Weizen (more subtly smoked, with a sherbety fruitiness from the yeast); Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier (a hoppy golden lager that contains no smoked malt but still manages to pick up a waft of soot from its environs); and the seasonal Schlenkerla Oak Smoke.

    Beer: Bacon overload Greg Kitsock 2010

  • Those yummy sherbety colors that I love and occasionally purchase are much more temperamental.

    Winter Plant Portrait-Wallflowers, Erysimum « Fairegarden 2010

  • It's such a beautiful orange-sherbety color, and tastes so smooth and sweet.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Pat 2006

  • It's such a beautiful orange-sherbety color, and tastes so smooth and sweet.

    roasting and pureeing butternut squash Pat 2006

  • Sweetopia is basically a puzzle game that sees you thrust into a spluttering faulty sweetshop, and all you have to do is close down the machinery before it all explodes in a big sherbety mess.

    SLACKERJACK – Monsterstack 2006

  • "Granita is a kind of icy, sherbety thing --" "I know what granita is,"

    Temporary Wife Kilby, Joan 1999

  • For Iris, happiness is "the almost-pins-and-needles sherbety feeling when summer air dries seawater on your skin".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The same goes for chablis for lemon pith, a little weight and sherbety glitter, look for a gavi from Italy instead; for minerals and wet chalk try a dry chenin blanc from the Loire.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Behind the retro label lies a Spanish blend of garnacha, monastrell and trepat, marked by a rich mousse of pink bubbles and cranberry-like sherbety acidity.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

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