cocktail
English
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.
Pronunciation
Audio (AU): (file)
Noun
cocktail (plural cocktails)
- A mixed alcoholic beverage.
- Synonyms: mixed drink, (abbreviation) ckt
- 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 from the chemical factory.
- a cocktail of illegal drugs
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote by Thackeray and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- It was in the second affair that poor little Barney showed he was a cocktail.
- (Can we date this quote by Thackeray and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- A species of rove beetle, so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: còctel
- → Czech: koktejl
- → Dutch: cocktail
- → Esperanto: koktelo
- → Finnish: cocktail
- → French: cocktail
- → Galician: cóctel
- → German: Cocktail
- → Greek: κοκτέιλ (koktéil)
- → Hungarian: koktél
- → Italian: cocktail
- → Japanese: カクテル (kakuteru)
- → Korean: 칵테일 (kakteil)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: cocktail
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: cocktail
- → Polish: koktajl
- → Portuguese: coquetel
- → Russian: кокте́йль (koktéjlʹ) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: cóctel, coctel
- → Swedish: cocktail
- → Thai: ค็อกเทล (kɔ́k-teel)
- → Vietnamese: cocktail
Translations
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Adjective
cocktail (comparative more cocktail, superlative most cocktail)
- (obsolete) Ostentatiously lacking in manners.
- 1830, Sporting Magazine:
- It looks very cocktail to be seen riding through the streets of London in a scarlet coat ;
- 1840, The Sporting magazine:
- The Prince had nothing particular about him but a monstrous smart whip with a gold stag for a handle, which was pronounced a very cocktail looking instrument by the Leicestershire farmers, with whom His Serene Highness is no favorite
- 2008, Christine Kelly, Mrs Duberly's War: Journal and Letters from the Crimea, 1854-6, →ISBN:
- She always goes about with a brace of loaded revolvers in her belt!! Very cocktail and no occasion for it
Verb
cocktail (third-person singular simple present cocktails, present participle cocktailing, simple past and past participle cocktailed)
- (transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
- (transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.
- He dined and cocktailed her at the most exclusive bars and restaurants.
See also
- swizzle
- See also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
References
- Michael Quinion (2004) “Cocktail”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.
Dutch
Etymology
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin
Pronunciation
Noun
cocktail m (plural cocktails, diminutive cocktailtje n)
Derived terms
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
cocktail
- cocktail (mixed drink)
Declension
Inflection of cocktail (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | cocktail | cocktailit | |
genitive | cocktailin | cocktailien | |
partitive | cocktailia | cocktaileja | |
illative | cocktailiin | cocktaileihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | cocktail | cocktailit | |
accusative | nom. | cocktail | cocktailit |
gen. | cocktailin | ||
genitive | cocktailin | cocktailien | |
partitive | cocktailia | cocktaileja | |
inessive | cocktailissa | cocktaileissa | |
elative | cocktailista | cocktaileista | |
illative | cocktailiin | cocktaileihin | |
adessive | cocktaililla | cocktaileilla | |
ablative | cocktaililta | cocktaileilta | |
allative | cocktailille | cocktaileille | |
essive | cocktailina | cocktaileina | |
translative | cocktailiksi | cocktaileiksi | |
abessive | cocktailitta | cocktaileitta | |
instructive | — | cocktailein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
French
Etymology
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin
Pronunciation
Noun
cocktail m (plural cocktails)
Further reading
- “cocktail”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
Noun
cocktail m (uncountable)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
cocktail m (definite singular cocktailen, indefinite plural cocktailer, definite plural cocktailene)
References
- “cocktail” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
cocktail m (definite singular cocktailen, indefinite plural cocktailar, definite plural cocktailane)
References
- “cocktail” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Noun
cocktail m (plural cocktails or cocktail)
- Alternative spelling of cóctel
Swedish
Etymology
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
Noun
cocktail c
Declension
Declension of cocktail | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cocktail | cocktailen | cocktailar | cocktailarna |
Genitive | cocktails | cocktailens | cocktailars | cocktailarnas |
Derived terms
Vietnamese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [kok̚˧˦ taj˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [kok̚˦˧˥ taj˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [kok̚˦˥ ta(ː)j˧˧]
- Phonetic spelling: côốc tay
Noun
cocktail
See also
- English terms with unknown etymologies
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- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- Requests for quotations/Darwin
- British English
- English slang
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- Requests for date/Thackeray
- Min Nan terms with non-redundant manual script codes
- English adjectives
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English terms with quotations
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- en:Alcoholic beverages
- en:Beetles
- en:Cocktails
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
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- Dutch lemmas
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- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch entries with topic categories using raw markup
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Alcoholic beverages
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
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- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Finnish lemmas
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- Finnish terms spelled with C
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- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Alcoholic beverages
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- fr:Alcoholic beverages
- Italian terms borrowed from English
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- it:Alcoholic beverages
- Norwegian Bokmål terms borrowed from English
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms spelled with C
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- nb:Alcoholic beverages
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from English
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- nn:Alcoholic beverages
- Spanish lemmas
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- Swedish terms borrowed from English
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- sv:Alcoholic beverages
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