cocktail

See also Cocktail

English

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Etymology

Unknown, many unproven stories exist. The word first appeared in 1806 (see citation below). The non-drink sense is by extension of the drink sense.

Noun

cocktail (plural cocktails)

1. A mixed alcoholic beverage.

   They visited a pub noted for the wide range of cocktails they serve.

   • 1806, 13 May 1806 edition of Balance and Columbian Repository, published by Hudson, New York, (first appearance in print):

     Cocktail is a stimulating liquor composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters — it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.

2. A mixture of other substances.

   "Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream of the chemical factory."

3. A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in its veins.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Darwin to this entry?)

4. (UK, slang, dated) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward.
   • Thackeray

     It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail.

5. A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.

Synonyms

• mixed drink

Derived terms

cocktail cabinet game cocktail dress cocktail frank cocktail frankfurt cocktail frankfurter cocktail lounge cocktail party

cocktail sauce cocktail sav cocktail savaloy cocktail shaker cocktail stick cocktail table Molotov cocktail

Translations

alcoholic beverage

• Arabic: كوكتيل (ar) (kuktayl, kokteyl) m
• Armenian: կոկտեյլ (hy) (kokteyl) 
• Bulgarian: коктейл (bg) m (koktejl)
• Catalan: còctel (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雞尾酒 (cmn), 鸡尾酒 (cmn) (jīwéijiǔ)

• Czech: koktejl (cs) m
• Dutch: cocktail (nl) m
• Esperanto: koktelo (eo)
• Estonian: kokteil
• Finnish: cocktail (fi), drinkki (fi)
• French: cocktail (fr) m
• German: Cocktail (de) n
• Greek: κοκτέιλ (el) (koktéil) n 
• Hebrew: קוֹקְטֵיל (he) (kokteyl) m
• Hungarian: koktél (hu)
• Indonesian: koktail (id)

• Japanese: カクテル (ja) (kakuteru)
• Korean: 칵테일 (ko) (kakteil)
• Macedonian: коктел (mk) (koktél) m
• Malay: koktel (ms)
• Marathi: कॉक्टेल (mr) (kǒkṭela) m
• Polish: koktajl (pl) m
• Portuguese: coquetel (pt) m
• Romanian: cocteil (ro) n, cocktail (ro) n
• Russian: коктейль (ru) (koktɛ́jlʹ, koktɛ́lʹ) m , (common misspelling) коктель (ru) (koktɛ́lʹ) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: koktel (sh) m
• Slovene: koktejl (sl), koktajl (sl), cocktail (sl)
• Spanish: coctel (es) m, cóctel (es) m
• Swedish: cocktail (sv) c
• Tagalog: kaktel (tl)
• Turkish: kokteyl (tr)

Adjective

cocktail (comparative more cocktail, superlative most cocktail)

1. festive, lively
   • 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter III

     […] now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music and the opera of voices pitches a key higher.

See also

• swizzle
• See also Wikisaurus:alcoholic beverage

References

• "Cocktail" in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds, 2004.

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Dutch

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɔkteil/

Noun

cocktail m (plural cocktails, diminutive cocktailtje)

1. A cocktail

Derived terms

• cocktailparty
• cocktailsaus
• molotovcocktail

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Finnish

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

Noun

cocktail

1. A cocktail

Declension

Declension of cocktail (type risti) singular plural nominative cocktail cocktailit genitive cocktailin cocktailien partitive cocktailia cocktaileja accusative cocktail cocktailin cocktailit inessive cocktailissa cocktaileissa elative cocktailista cocktaileista illative cocktailiin cocktaileihin adessive cocktaililla cocktaileilla ablative cocktaililta cocktaileilta allative cocktailille cocktaileille essive cocktailina cocktaileina translative cocktailiksi cocktaileiksi instructive – cocktailein abessive cocktailitta cocktaileitta comitative – cocktaileineen

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French

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɔkˈtɛl/, X-SAMPA: /kOk.tEl/

Noun

cocktail m (plural cocktails)

1. A cocktail

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Italian

Etymology

From English, which is of unclear origin.

Noun

cocktail m (invariable)

1. A cocktail
2. A cocktail party

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Swedish

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

Noun

cocktail c

1. cocktail

Declension

Declension of cocktail

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	cocktail	cocktailen	cocktailar	cocktailarna
genitive	cocktails	cocktailens	cocktailars	cocktailarnas

Derived terms

• cocktailparty
• cocktailpåse
• molotovcocktail

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Vietnamese

Etymology

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

Noun

cocktail

1. cocktail

See also

• rượu cốctay