sherry

plural sherries

1. uncountableusuallyA fortified wine produced in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain, or a similar wine produced elsewhere.

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   He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.

   1956, Delano Ames, chapter 14, in Crime out of Mind

2. uncountableusuallyA variety of sherry.

   They produce several quality sherries.

3. uncountableusuallyA glass of sherry.

   Would you like a sherry?

plural Sherrys · alternative Cheri · alternative Sheri · alternative Sherri

1. A female given name from English, from the sherry wine, or a variant of Cheri.

   Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and an M.I.T. professor who worked with Weizenbaum, coined the term the “Eliza Effect” to describe people convincing themselves that a technology that seemed human was more intelligent, perceptive and complex than it actually was.

   2025 December 19, Kashmir Hill, “Why Do A.I. Chatbots Use ‘I’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Dec 2025

2. A surname.