cocktail
Meaning of cocktail
- an alcoholic drink consisting of a spirit or spirits mixed with other ingredients, such as fruit juice or cream.
a cocktail bar
- a dish consisting of small pieces of food, typically served cold as a starter.
we began with prawn and avocado cocktail
a chilled lobster cocktail prettily presented in a martini glass
early 17th century: from cock1 + tail1. The original use was as an adjective describing a creature with a tail like that of a cock, specifically a horse with a docked tail; hence (because hunters and coach-horses were generally docked) a racehorse which was not a thoroughbred, having a cock-tailed horse in its pedigree (early 19th century). cocktail (sense 1) (originally US, also early 19th century) is perhaps analogous, from the idea of an adulterated spirit.
Information about cocktail
- It is a name.
- The plural form of cocktail is: cocktails.
- Languages in which cocktail is used:
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Hyphenation of cocktail
cock-tail
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- cocktail is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of cocktail
Words that rhyme with cocktail
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