sherbert, sherbet
(noun) a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatin
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Sherbert (plural Sherberts)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sherbert is the 25136th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 987 individuals. Sherbert is most common among White (93.82%) individuals.
• Berreths, Herbster, herberts
sherbert (plural sherberts)
(proscribed) Alternative spelling of sherbet
• Variant spelling, common especially (but not only) in American English, based on a variant pronunciation that is very common but still often considered incorrect or uneducated. Some American dictionaries no longer label this spelling or pronunciation as nonstandard. The spelling is still labeled as incorrect in some British dictionaries and not even mentioned in others despite making up about one quarter of all examples in the Oxford English Corpus.
• Berreths, Herbster, herberts
Source: Wiktionary
27 November 2024
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
