ˈsherry-cobbler colloq.
[f. sherry n.1]
A cobbler made with sherry. See cobbler 3.
| 1809 [see cobbler 3]. 1842 Dickens Amer. Notes ix, The bowls of mint-julep and sherry-cobbler. 1855 Haliburton Nat. & Hum. Nat. II. 312 He suck in his drink like sherry-cobbler through a straw. 1882 ‘Ouida’ Under Two Flags (1890) 82 He paused to listen till he let the ice in his sherry-cobbler melt away. |