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cherry¹

  • /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/ UK, US
  • /ˈt͡ʃeɹi/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /ˈt͡ʃɛɾe/ Scotland
  • /-ɾɪ/ Scotland
  • /-ɾi/ Scotland
  • /ˈt͡ʃɛɾi/ Wales

Rhymes with -ɛɹi

Where it comes from

From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.

noun cherries

  1. A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
  2. Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
  3. The wood of a cherry tree.
  4. Cherry red.
  5. The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
  6. slang Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen. "Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."
  7. A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves. Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1
  8. slang A red cricket ball. The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.
  9. slang A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
  10. A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car. "What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.
  11. The burning tip of a cigarette. I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.
  12. euphemistic, slang A woman’s breasts.

adjective cherrier · more cherry · cherriest · most cherry

  1. Containing or having the taste of cherries.
  2. Of a bright red color; cherry red.
  3. informal, often In excellent condition; mint condition. A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.

verb cherries · cherrying · cherried

  1. dated, obsolete, transitive To redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
  2. dated, obsolete, transitive To cheer, to delight.

Cherry²

proper noun

  1. A female given name from English, a pet form of Charity, also interpreted as a flower name. 'As you knows Mrs Chuzzlewit, you knows, p’raps, what her chris’en name is?' Mrs Gamp observed. 'Charity,' said Bailey. 'That it ain’t!' cried Mrs Gamp. 'Cherry, then,' said Bailey. 'Cherry's short for it. It’s all the same.'
  2. A surname.
  3. A ghost town in Yavapai County, Arizona.
  4. A village in Bureau County, Illinois.
  5. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.
  6. Two townships in Pennsylvania, in Butler County and Sullivan County.
  7. An unincorporated community in Lauderdale County, Tennessee.
  8. An unincorporated community in Wirt County, West Virginia.

noun Cherries

  1. someone connected with AFC Bournemouth, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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