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gin-sling [f. gin n.2 + sling n.2] An American cold drink composed of gin, etc. flavoured and sweetened.1790 J. Baxter Jrnl. 19 Feb. in Amer. Speech (1965) XL. 199 Drank a gin sling with him at fat Simmon's. 1837, 1843 [see cocktail 3 a]. 1839 Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. I. 105 Punch, gin slings, co...
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gin
▪ I. gin, n.1 (dʒɪn) Forms: 3–7 ginne, gynne, 3–6 (also 9 in sense 8) gyn, 5 gyne, (4–5 gen), 7 gynn, 7–8 ginn, 3– gin. [Aphetic form of OF. engin, engine (q.v.).] † 1. Skill, ingenuity. Also in a bad sense: Cunning, craft, artifice (cf. engine 2). quaint of gin: clever in contriving or planning; al...
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sling
▪ I. sling, n.1 (slɪŋ) Forms: α. 4– sling (4 scling), 4, 6 slinge, 4–6 slyng(e, 5 sclyng(e; 4 sleng(e. β. Sc. 5 slong, 6 sloung, 5–6, 9 slung. [app. of Continental origin, but the precise source is not clear. The forms in the cognate languages which correspond most closely to the usual sling are MLG...
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cocktail
▪ I. cocktail, n. and a. (ˈkɒkteɪl) Also cock-tail. [lit. ‘a tail like that of a cock’, or ‘a tail that cocks up’; the latter is the prevailing notion.] A. n. 1. a. A cocktailed horse (cf. cock-tailed 1). The fact that hunters and stage-coach horses, the tails of which were generally shortened in th...
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