cherried

1. 1
   adjective

   Cooked or prepared using cherries as one of the ingredients.

   The chef finished the dessert with a cherried compote.

   We ordered the cherried pork, glazed in a dark fruit reduction.

   Note

   Built from cherry plus -ed, the same move food writing makes with almost any ingredient. Susan Kessen's Dear Mom and Dad (2010) piles up a ham that is "cloved, overly maraschino cherried and pineappled." It usually comes before the noun, as in cherried duck, and it takes no more or most: a dish is cherried or it is not.

2. 2
   verbobsolete

   Simple past and past participle of cherry, in an obsolete sense.

   Note

   Here cherry is a verb, and an old one: its meanings, to redden and to cheer or delight, are both dated and obsolete. The y becomes -ied, and one form serves as both past tense and past participle (they cherried; they had cherried). Today the spelling turns up far more often as an adjective, such as the smokers' slang term.

3. 3
   adjectiveslang

   Still burning steadily and ready to be smoked, needing no relighting before the next draw.

   Like a coal that stays hot and red between uses, never quite going out.

   The blunt stayed cherried as it went around the room.

   She handed me the pipe still cherried from the last hit.

   Similarlit, burning

   Note

   Smokers' slang for a bowl or joint whose ember is still going, so the next hit needs no lighter. Unlike the culinary adjective, which comes before a noun, this one mostly follows a verb: "the bowl's cherried," or "It's cherried" in B.R. Yeager's Negative Space (2020). It belongs to casual talk among smokers. Outside that circle, still lit says the same thing.

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