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English
Etymology
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Noun
cherry-merry (uncountable)
- (Anglo-Indian, obsolete) A present of money.
1858, Michael Rafter, The Rifleman, page 232:"That not proper business," said Croke Sahib. "What for I give cherry-merry?"
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References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary