cocktail

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.

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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 from the chemical factory.

   a cocktail of illegal drugs

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. (Britain, 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.

• mixed drink

cocktail (comparative more cocktail, superlative most cocktail)

1. (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

cocktail (third-person singular simple present cocktails, present participle cocktailing, simple past and past participle cocktailed)

1. (transitive) To adulterate (fuel, etc.) by mixing in other substances.
2. (transitive) To treat (a person) to cocktails.

   He dined and cocktailed her at the most exclusive bars and restaurants.

• swizzle
• See also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

• “Cocktail” in Michael Quinion, Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1-58834-219-5.

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔkteːl/

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cocktail m (plural cocktails, diminutive cocktailtje n)

1. A cocktail

• cocktailparty
• cocktailsaus
• molotovcocktail

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

• Hyphenation: cock‧tail
• IPA^(key): /ˈkoktɑi̯l/, [ˈko̞kt̪ɑi̯l]
• IPA^(key): /ˈkoktei̯l/, [ˈko̞kt̪e̞i̯l]

cocktail

1. cocktail (mixed drink)

• juomasekoitus
• kimara

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin

• IPA^(key): /kɔk.tɛl/

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cocktail m (plural cocktails)

1. A cocktail
2. (metonymically) A cocktail party

• “cocktail” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

cocktail m (invariable)

1. A cocktail
2. A cocktail party

From English cocktail

cocktail m (definite singular cocktailen, indefinite plural cocktailer, definite plural cocktailene)

1. a cocktail

• “cocktail” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English cocktail

cocktail m (definite singular cocktailen, indefinite plural cocktailar, definite plural cocktailane)

1. a cocktail

• “cocktail” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

cocktail m (plural cocktails or cocktail)

1. cocktail

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

cocktail c

1. cocktail

• cocktailparty
• cocktailpåse
• molotovcocktail

• cốc tay

From English cocktail, which is of unclear origin.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kok̚˧˦ taj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kok̚˦˧˥ taj˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kok̚˦˥ taj˧˧]
• Phonetic: côốc tay

cocktail

1. cocktail

• rượu cốctay