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washing sherry

noun

Etymology

Alteration of the more neutral cooking sherry

Definitions

  1. Cheap, inferior sherry.

    • A couple of literary luncheons went sugar-tipsy to their heads, like the washing sherry served before those luncheons[…]
    • I could spend half my evenings, if I wanted, / Holding a glass of washing sherry, canted / Over to catch the drivel of some bitch / Who's read nothing but Which[…]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for washing sherry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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