Sorbet vs Smoothie - What's the difference?
sorbet | smoothie |
Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal.
A smooth-talking person.
* 2003 , Michael Lydon, Flashbacks: Eyewitness Accounts of the Rock Revolution, 1964-1974 (page 7)
A drink made from whole fruit, thus thicker than fruit juice.
A member of the mod subculture who is relatively non-violent and wears expensive clothing.
* 1987 , John Irwin (quoting Piri Thomas), The Felon
* 1999 , Nick Johnstone, Abel Ferrara: The King of New York (page viii)
* 2011 , Gerard DeGroot (quoting Brown), Seventies Unplugged
As nouns the difference between sorbet and smoothie
is that sorbet is frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal while smoothie is a smooth-talking person.sorbet
English
Noun
(en noun)- After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.
Synonyms
* ice * Italian iceAnagrams
* ----smoothie
English
(wikipedia smoothie)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- True to their reputations, Paul was a smoothie who put a public relations gloss on everything he said, and John was abrasive and sarcastic, speaking his mind and letting the chips fall where they may.
- The decision to cool myself made the next two years the hardest I had done because it meant being a smoothie and staying out of trouble, which in prison is difficult,
- Film Comment's David Chute described him as: "small, stringy and intense, but he's better dressed and groomed (than Ferrara), less of a punk and more of a smoothie ."