cidery

English

Etymology

cider + -y

Adjective

cidery (comparative more cidery, superlative most cidery)

  1. Resembling cider.
    • 1980, Beverly Cleary, Beth Krush, Joe Krush, Emily's Runaway Imagination
      She picked up an apple which had a rich cidery smell and tossed it over the fence into the orchard, where it landed with a plop and smelled even more cidery []
    • 2000, Michael Arditti, Easter, page 237:
      The more he heard of fumbled passes, cidery kisses and snapped straps, the more he knew better than to risk such humiliation.

Noun

cidery (plural cideries)

  1. A facility where hard cider is produced. Technically a cidery is a winery; hard apple cider is a fruit wine. Cider is fermented, not brewed; a cidery should not be confused with a brewery.

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