cocktail
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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 [edit]
cocktail (plural cocktails)
- 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.
- A mixture of other substances.
- "Scientists found a cocktail of pollutants in the river downstream of the chemical factory."
- 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?)
- (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.
- Thackeray
- A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
alcoholic beverage
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Adjective [edit]
cocktail (comparative more cocktail, superlative most cocktail)
- 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.
- 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter III
See also [edit]
- swizzle
- See also Wikisaurus:alcoholic beverage
References [edit]
- "Cocktail" in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds, 2004.
Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈkɔkteil/
Noun [edit]
cocktail m (plural cocktails, diminutive cocktailtje)
- A cocktail
Derived terms [edit]
Finnish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
Noun [edit]
cocktail
- A cocktail
Declension [edit]
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Declension of cocktail (type risti)
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
cocktail m (plural cocktails)
- A cocktail
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English, which is of unclear origin.
Noun [edit]
cocktail m (invariable)
Swedish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
Noun [edit]
cocktail c
Declension [edit]
Declension of cocktail
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | cocktail | cocktailen | cocktailar | cocktailarna |
| genitive | cocktails | cocktailens | cocktailars | cocktailarnas |
Derived terms [edit]
Vietnamese [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
Noun [edit]
cocktail
See also [edit]
Categories:
- English terms with unknown etymologies
- English nouns
- British English
- English slang
- English dated terms
- English adjectives
- en:Cocktails
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch nouns
- nl:Alcoholic beverages
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Alcoholic beverages
- French terms derived from English
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Alcoholic beverages
- Italian terms derived from English
- Italian nouns
- it:Alcoholic beverages
- Swedish terms derived from English
- Swedish nouns
- sv:Alcoholic beverages
- Vietnamese terms derived from English
- Vietnamese nouns