cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛɹi/
rhymes: -ɛɹi
Forms: form: cherries
Etymology: From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), both ultimately 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.
Senses: glosses: A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
glosses: Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
glosses: The wood of a cherry tree.
glosses: Cherry red.
glosses: The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
examples: text: "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."
ref: 1965 [1955], J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, New York: Delacorte Press, page 39:
text: Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy
ref: 1979, David Bowie, Brian Eno, “Boys Keep Swinging”, in Lodger, performed by David Bowie:
text: Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.
ref: 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 20:
text: So what bitch, I busted your cherry – / Hell fucking no, I don’t wanna git married
ref: 1986, “Short Side (Blow Job Betty)” (track 5, 6:36–6:43 from the start), in Too Short (lyrics), Raw, Uncut and X-Rated:
glosses: Virginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
examples: text: Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1
ref: 2004, Suleyman Cenk Sahinalp, S Muthukrishnan, Ugur Dogrusoz, Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Berlin […] : Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 210:
text: Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2
ref: 2005, Lior Pachter, Bernd Sturmfels, Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 74:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
examples: text: The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.
ref: 2000, Woorkheri Raman, “Indians adopt safety first tactics”, in ESPNcricinfo, archived from the original on 07 Jul 2022, retrieved 25 Nov 2024:
text: Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.
ref: 2007, Ben Dirs, “England v West Indies 1st Test”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2016, retrieved 25 Nov 2024:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A red cricket ball.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
examples: text: "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.
ref: 2009, Sandra Brown, Smash Cut, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 249:
text: “This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry
ref: 2011, Rick Mofina, In Desperation, Don Mills, Ontario: MIRA, →ISBN, page 44:
synonyms: cherrytop
glosses: A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
examples: text: I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: The burning tip of a cigarette.
Hypernyms: sense: fruit
word: fruit
sense: tree
word: tree
sense: tree
word: plant
Hyponyms: taxonomic: Prunus emarginata
word: bitter cherry
taxonomic: Prunus apetala
word: clove cherry
taxonomic: Prunus cyclamina
word: cyclamen cherry
taxonomic: Prunus gondouinii
word: duke cherry
taxonomic: Prunus cerasus
alt: P. fruticosa, P. pumila; Exocarpus strictus
word: dwarf cherry
taxonomic: Prunus ilicifolia
word: evergreen cherry
taxonomic: Prunus pensylvanica
word: fire cherry
taxonomic: Prunus canescens
word: greyleaf cherry
taxonomic: Prunus avium subsp. juliana
word: heart cherry
taxonomic: Prunus ilicifolia
word: hollyleaf cherry
taxonomic: Prunus humilis
word: humble bush cherry
english: Prunus sect. Laurocerasus
translation: Prunus sect. Laurocerasus
word: laurel cherry
taxonomic: Prunus fruticosa
word: steppe cherry
taxonomic: Prunus avium
word: sweet cherry
taxonomic: Prunus avium
alt: P. serotina
word: wild cherry
Derived terms: bite at the cherry
bite of the cherry
bowl of cherries
Brazil cherry
Brazilian cherry
Cayenne cherry
cherpumple
cherried
cherries and berries
cherries jubilee
cherryade
cherry alder
cherry angioma
cherry Bakewell
cherry blossom front
cherry-bomb
cherry boy
Cherry Burton
cherry coal
cherry graph
Cherry Green
Cherry Grove
cherry guava
Cherry Hill
Cherry Hinton
cherrying
cherry knocking
cherryless
cherry light
cherrylike
cherry-merry
cherry-merry-bamboo
cherry nose
cherry on the cake
cherry on top
cherry orange
Cherry Orchard
cherry pick
cherry-picker
Cherry Picker
cherry-picking
cherry picking
cherry pit
cherry-pop
cherry-popper
cherry-popping
cherry-red
cherry salmon
cherry satinash
cherry slug
cherrytini
cherry top
cherry topper
cherry-tree
cherry tree
Cherry Tree
cherry wood
Chinese cherry
chokecherry
dash cherry
dog-cherry
dog's cherry
groundcherry
holly-leaved cherry
Hottentot cherry
Japanese cherry birch
Khoi cherry
perfumed cherry
pop someone's cherry
pop the cherry
pretty please with a cherry on top
Queensland cherry
rum cherry
Spanish cherry
Surinam cherry
Suriname cherry
tart cherry
Washington cherry tree
Yoshino cherry
Related terms: gean