Sherbet

[nq:1]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
It is in UK, also spelled sherbert.
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[nq:2]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is in UK, also spelled sherbert. m.[/nq]
Can be slang here for any kind of drink - usually alcoholic but not necessarily beer.
Also slang for a taxi

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
It's news to me, but I might be mixing in the wrong circles.

Peter Moylan (Email Removed) http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software)

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[nq:2]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
[nq:1]It's news to me, but I might be mixing in the wrong circles.[/nq]
Just regret every time you have refused a sherbet.
Simon R. Hughes

[nq:1]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
In Australia there are 600 words for beer and that's one of them.

Regards
John

[nq:1]Can be slang here for any kind of drink - usually alcoholic but not necessarily beer. Also slang for a taxi[/nq]
sherbet
beer: e.g. We're all going to the pub to sink a few sherbets. From The Penguin Book of Australian Slang: A Dinkum Guide to Oz English (1996) by Lenie Johansen
sherbert/sherbet n.

1 (late 19C) grog or any warm, alcoholic drink, also as old sherbert .

[nq:2]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
[nq:1]It is in UK, also spelled sherbert.[/nq]
In the USA, it gets pronounced differently when it's spelled "sherbert" from when it's spelled "sherbet". (Except in Boston, of course.) Mike Hardy

[nq:2]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
[nq:1]It's news to me, but I might be mixing in the wrong circles.[/nq]
Sounds OK to me, but rather outdated, like a lot of slang I heard when I lived in country towns.

Rob Bannister

[nq:1]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
Howzat?
Mark@work

[nq:2]In Australia, "sherbet" is slang for "beer". True?[/nq]
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